Re: //C serial port driving me batty

[Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Kevin wrote:

> whenever I send data out of my //c's modem port the 8th data bit (to the 
> left) is always a 1
>
> so if I type H instead of getting 72 on the other side I get 200, and 
> its driving me nutty ... any clues on why this is happening?
You have got it set for 8bits?

Wasn't it the IIC that used the wrong frequency for the UART, so there was 
a timing problem at higher speeds?  It used an existing clock, the fix was 
to run it off its own crystal if I remember properly.

Not sure if that's the problem, but worth looking into.

  Michael