[SunRescue] Trying to save Sun2

[William Janssen]

jwbirdsa at picarefy.picarefy.com wrote in part:
> 
> >:#2 I hooked up a terminal (DEC VT220) to SIO-A. All I get is a lot of
> >:gibberish. I've tried all possible settings. How can I get it to work?
> >
> >9600-8-n-1 300-7-e-1 are the two guesses. Make sure all forms of flow control
> >and error correction are turned OFF.
> 
>    It's 9600, 8N1 I believe, but you'll have to pull the
> framebuffer/keyboard/mouse board in order to get SIO-A as the console.

I have gotten gibberish also (sometimes) with 9600 8N1. In my case
I use a comm program on a PC and I set the comm program to ignore the
8th
bit and only use 7. Maybe 9600 7N2 would work.

Bill K7NOM