From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263544AbUA1HnN (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:43:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265647AbUA1HnN (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:43:13 -0500 Received: from mta05ps.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.159]:33784 "EHLO mta05ps.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263544AbUA1HnL (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:43:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:35:14 +1100 From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan Subject: Re: Lost characters on serial console To: d.schmicker@physik.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <138bf31398c4.1398c4138bf3@email.bigpond.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Oct 29 2003) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Detlef, I had similar issues (I cannot remember the exact error messages, but it was ppp which complained about the compression/decompression errors). I do not see those error messages when I use USB to Serial converter (it uses pl2303 driver) under heavy hard drive (IDE in my case) load. I guess USB sub-system is not as interrupts sensitive as Serial ports. Thanks Hari