Hi, I'm sorry to revive an old thread but I had the need of resizing the partitions created by a raspbmc installation and found out that I couldn't because the gparted on my linux box listed that partition as "unknown". After reading a bit about f2fs I noticed the no fsck issue. So I don't feel very...
I remember writing a program on an IBM PC/AT to download a program to an EPROM programmer. At 19200 baud I had to resort to assembler, because compiled C was not fast enough. (No handshaking and only 1 byte buffering in those days.) Never had to use those beasts, I think that the oldest one I saw a...
Even with no flow control, you only need to read the port three times a second to avoid overrun. Hardware flow control, specifically RTS/CTS, can be enabled using GPIO31/30 on P5. But you would need a different adapter, quite possibly a USB-RS232 plus MAX3232 level converters, to make use of this. ...
Thanks to all the great sources of information here, one day I hope the knowledge will sink in to my brain. No wonder people tell me I"m not grounded. Yes. I have a lot to think about. I can see the logic of having a 5v wire on a serial connection when doing very low level stuff, like connecting to...
Hi, Just got this adapter from e-bay, it is called "USB to serial adapter PL2303 TTL console Recovery RS232 for Raspberry Pi", but I know better than believe in everything I read in e-bay. The adapter is this one . I removed decades of dust from my analog multimeter (duracell batteries rule :-)) and...