** Reply to message from Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> on Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:05:35 -0300
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Cliff Scott <c...@intergate.com> wrote: > > I'm not offended. You've had a bad experience. I haven't yet. I suppose > > their > > drivers not working on the copied chips is their way of telling you that you > > got a bad one, but of course they should come right out and say this chip is > > not a real one so you know it isn't a software problem. > > I didn't want to elaborate on my troubles, but suffice to say that the > cables worked poorly only with the drivers included on the CD, faults > included: > > -only worked at 9600bps or lower port speed > -'"hanging'" when changing the port speed, to the point I had to > unplug the cable and plug it again to get it to work again... > -"noise" (it was not a parity problem) when talking to a modem... > > NONE OF THE ABOVE happened with linux, so I guess the FOSS drivers are > better than the in-house developed drivers for Windows... > > BUT, I needed to use the adapter with Windows, not Linux. > > Attempting to use newer drivers other than those on the CD resulted in > the "yellow exclamation mark" in Device Manager that they warn about. > > But perhaps more confusingly, they offer a tool along the newer driver > that inquires and shows the chipset version... it worked on my cables > and showed the chipset version (I dont remember the details at the > moment),when supposedly it would only work on legit chips (so I guess > my cables had legit chips, but they still malfunctioned, or should I > guess that those were copies, but the copiers got better and managed > to impersonate newer chip revisions? who knows.... I'm not n engineer > or interpol detective to deal with all this stuff. > > Put yourself on my shoes for a minute.... what would you think about > Prolific after this... > > So, that's the long story on why I recommend FTDI and do not recommend > Prolific... YMMV > > And with regards to spelling, please keep in mind that: > 1. English is not my native language > 2. I have enough with Spanish (native), Italian (mother's), and some > rudimentary Brazilian Portuguese, to be 100% perfect wrt my English > spelling > 3. I use a tablet -which causes lots of accidental typos > 4. I'm typing on a mailing list, not composing the text that goes on a > corporate web site. The bar should be lower for me :) > > Well, that's it. I hope I've made myself clearer now. > > Best regards, > FC Fernando, Thanks for the explanation on the issues with the chips. Somehow the one I got worked. I'm really not making any judgement on your spelling. I have not set any bar for you or anyone else. You do very well for a non-native speaker. I was just trying to give an example of how we can always find fault if we look hard enough at someone or some company and usually it is of no real benefit to anyone to do so. Often it causes more harm than good. I appreciate how you manage the list and feel bad that Pablo left over what, to me, appeared as total misunderstandings, maybe in part because of language. Let's get on with VBox matters now. Blessings, Cliff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
