Odd RS232 problem

[Daniel O'Connor]

Hi,
I am trying to talk to a high voltage power supply unit we're using at work,
it uses RS232 and you can read back current, voltage, faults, etc..

What I have seems to work fine except that occassionally I get junk read back,
 strangely it appears the longer my program runs the more often I see corrupt data.

The program is written in Tcl and I'm using version 8.4, I have a test PC here which
is quite old (FreeBSD 4.mumble, Tcl 8.2) and it never sees any problems. I am soon
going to try an identical system to the one failing (6.0-STABLE)

It's possible it could be the Tcl interpreter getting corrupted but IMO it's a very
odd manifestation if so..

The serial card in it is..
puc0: <Dolphin Peripherals 4036> port 0x9400-0x941f irq 18 at device 13.0 on pci0
sio4: <Dolphin Peripherals 4036> on puc0
sio4: type 16550A
sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio5: <Dolphin Peripherals 4036> on puc0
sio5: type 16550A
sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode

So, apart from the actual program code everything else is different :)
(Hopefully my next test will reduce the variable space a lot..)

Any sugestions most welcome.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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