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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: tty-level buffer overflows - what to do?
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>What kind of drives?  IDE drives bite, particularly if they are being used
>at the same time as the serial port... etc, etc.

IDE drives have no affect on the operation of the serial unless they
are so slow that the system spends too much of its time in the kernel.
Bus-hogging SCSI controllers bite.

Bruce