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[Geoff Harrison]

Originally Posted by Geoff Harrison

I tried a maximum of 9600 and was losing characters due to the lack of handshaking.

Just a follow up to my 4800 baud maximum speed issue. I have rewired the connection between my 2SIO board and the rear RS232 connector and I can run reliably at 9600 now. It had nothing to do with handshaking, the boot loaders don't even try to throttle the input anyway. I can only assume there was a bad connection with the old cable, which was one that was originally in my 8800b so it was probably about 30 years old.

Anyway, 9600 works fine and is definitely preferable to 4800. I did have to make sure that the DB25 pins 4, 5, & 8 were tied together to keep the 2SIO and my linux laptop happy. I don't know whether windows would be any different, I don't see why it would. I'll find out when I get a new motherboard for my windows machine next week.