RE: Bloody serial ports!!!!

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I presume co-linux is a Windows based Linux emulator?????

Trouble is, the software accessing the ports is Windows based.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Lee Causier
> Sent: 11 November 2005 09:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Bloody serial ports!!!!
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> or use co-linux and force the card to disabled in windows, and let
> colinux pick it up? ;)
>
> (I could mention Cambridge SRG's Xen but I don't believe you can run
> Windows inside Xen's hypervisor yet)
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> Tata,
>
> Lee Causier
>
> On 11/10/05, Paul Gale <groups@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Giving me such grief!
> >
> > I have a W2K3 server with an 8 port serial card. After a recent
reboot,
> one of the ports seemed to stop working. I thought I'd remove the
device
> driver and re-install. I also checked hidden devices to make sure
there
> weren't any hidden serial ports that were screwing things up (using
> devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1). There weren't.
> >
> > I rebooted again and now my meteors have moved serial ports!
Well, one
> is on port 8 where it was 5 and I can't get the other to work.
> >
> > I've seen Windows renumber USB-to-serial ports before but not
fixed
> cards.
> >
> > As you can imagine, having 8 serial ports renumbering themselves
on a
> reboot isn't particularly good in an HA environment!!!
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> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul.
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