Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 06:12:11 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: Greg Lynn <dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Always check serial cables!! Message-ID: <19990722201212.11799.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990722124710.18272A-100000@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> of Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:51:24 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990722124710.18272A-100000@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu>
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> Well I found me freakin problem... serial cable > was bad OR not meant for my particular mb!! Now > how often do serial cables go bad you ask ? Wherever cables are involved, they are the first things to check. If they're new, they are often faulty; if they have already been "proved" operational, they can still fail, especially after being unplugged/plugged in. One of my clients paid a licensed cabling contractor to install a bunch of RS-232 serial cables in his new office a few months back. Initially, none of the new cables worked because the guy who did the work could not understand a simple pinout for a cross-over cable. After he re-soldered the connectors at one end of each cable, two of them still did not work because of poor quality joints which he was persuaded to fix. Of the other four cables, three have subsequently failed and been repaired by somebody else. I presume the final cable will fail eventually. This story, while somewhat worse than "normal", is not in any way remarkable. What is odd is that my client was going to use the very same contractor to do the cabling for his forthcoming ethernet until I made a fuss about it. -- Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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