Re: The Sky version 4 and lx200
- From: Chris L Peterson <clp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:10:11 -0600
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:32:40 GMT, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Critically important, and also Reason # 3x11e39, nudge-nudge, wink-wink
;-)
Actually, it's a problem caused by poor design of most of the adapters
themselves, not so much an OS problem. The USB spec provides a mechanism
for devices to uniquely identify themselves- something that is
critically important in the case of hardware that is mapped to a static
system resource. A few manufacturers (Keyspan, for instance) do this
properly, so there is never any problem. You install the device the
first time, the system asks you which port you want to assign, and
that's the end of it. But most USB/serial adapters fail to provide an id
code, so the system (any system) has absolutely no way of knowing how to
reassign ports, forcing a sort of guessing game that often results in
orphaned COM ports.
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