[Nut-upsdev] Fwd: Re: bestfortress driver establishes/loses/establishes communication and so on...

[Stuart D. Gathman]

Long ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on Jan 31, Oliver Kluge would write:

>> There is no handshake. The record length is 80 bytes. The UPS does not
>> send the 80 byte record until you ask it to. So you just need a buffer
>> with 81 bytes for the data. The COM driver is returning too soon, and
>> doesn't
>> have a big enough buffer.
>
> Well, I never see any communicaation with 80 bytes. And upsc fortress does 
> give correct looking information once communication is established.

That is why it isn't working for you.  (I don't mean you personally,
I mean the driver isn't working in your situation.)

While in one sense, your problem is much more serious than mine,
in another sense, it is much better being highly repeatable!

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