Re: [ts-7000] Missing characters in Serial I/P

[Donal <>]

Thanks guys, I actually implemented a timeout that works perfectly but this isn't the ideal
solution. I will look into what you've given there Paul.

Larry,
Thats interesting alright that you were having similar problems. 

I'll let ye know how I get on.

Thanks once again.

Regards,
Donal

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Larry <> wrote:

I think you are dead on with the flash write theory.
I ran into a similar problem on the 7250, and after carefully eliminating flash
writes, I fixed the problem. I'll bet you're missing characters other than the >,
and just are less able to detect that.

Donal wrote:

Hi There,

I have an application that constantly reads/writes to serial. It is written in QT, using QExtSerialPort POSIX library.
I send a command and the response ends around 250ms later. But since all commands are different, I don't want to sleep
for the worst case (bout 300ms) and then read. Instead I want to keep reading until I hit a '>' character that is always the end of a response.
This works fine, I get my responses in about 230ms.

However the problem is, when I am using the app on my TS7390, I randomly miss the '>' character.
This could happen in 1 minute after starting my app, or it could keep going for say 10 minutes.
This results in a loop to infinity waiting for the > character that was supposed to come but never did.

My theory is that since I am running of SD, I may be getting those random SD writes that hang the system.
Would this cause a character to be dropped and not even get into the serial buffer?
I am currently in development stages, so can't move onto NAND just yet.

Alternatively I can implement a timeout feature, but my main question here is, with a SD write operation, is it possible for
the serial in buffer to reject or drop a character.

It's a bit of an annoying problem!

Oh yeah, memory, CPU usage of this application isn't a problem. A healty 8% CPU use, with about 14% mem usage.

Thanks,

Regards,
Donal

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