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38.Dd July 23, 1995
39.Dt MFCS 4 amiga
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm mfcs
43.Nd
44.Tn BSC/AlfaData MultiFaceCard II/III
45serial communications interface
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.Cd "mfc0 at mainbus0"
48.Cd "mfcs0 at mfc0 unit 0"
49.Cd "mfcs1 at mfc0 unit 1"
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Tn MultiFaceCard II/III
53controls, among other things, a dual port
54.Tn EIA
55.Tn RS-232C
56.Pf ( Tn CCITT
57.Tn V.28 )
58communications interface with a multiple character buffer.
59.Pp
60Input and output for each MultiFaceCard III line may set to a maximum baud
61rates of 1152000.  Formula for baud rate:  Baud = 230400 / N with 1 \*[Lt] N \*[Lt] 65536.
62.Pp
63Input and output for each MultiFaceCard II line may set to a maximum baud
64rates of 57600.  Formula for baud rate:  Baud = 115200 / N with 1 \*[Lt] N \*[Lt] 65536.
65.Sh FILES
66.Bl -tag -width Pa
67.It Pa /dev/ttyA?
68.El
69.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
70.Bl -diag
71.It mfcs0: fifo overflow.
72The four-character input
73.Dq fifo
74has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
75.It mfcs0: %d buffer overflows.
76The software based input ring buffer
77has overflowed %d times and incoming data has been lost.
78.El
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr tty 4
81.Sh HISTORY
82The
83.Tn Amiga
84.Nm
85device first appeared in
86.Nx 1.1
87.Sh BUGS
88The MultiFaceCard II/III serial ports use the level 6 interrupt and may
89experience fifo overflows if the LEV6_DEFER option is used.
90