7.1.5 Baud-Rate Indexes

The communications driver supports very high baud rates, such as 128,000 and 256,000, by interpreting the BaudRate member of the DCB structure as a baud-rate index whenever the high byte of the member is 0xFF. In such cases, BaudRate can be one of the following values.

BaudRate Value

110 CBR_110 (0xFF10)
300 CBR_300 (0xFF11)
600 CBR_600 (0xFF12)
1200 CBR_1200 (0xFF13)
2400 CBR_2400 (0xFF14)
4800 CBR_4800 (0xFF15)
9600 CBR_9600 (0xFF16)
14,400 CBR_14400 (0xFF17)
19,200 CBR_19200 (0xFF18)
38,400 CBR_38400 (0xFF1B)
56,000 CBR_56000 (0xFF1F)
128,000 CBR_128000 (0xFF23)
256,000 CBR_256000 (0xFF27)

Note:

The CBR_ values are for standardization; drivers are not required to support all indexed baud rates.

If the high byte of the BaudRate member is not 0xFF, BaudRate specifies the actual baud rate for the communications device. In other words, values in the range 2 through 65,279 (0xFEFF) are interpreted as baud rate values not as indexes. This ensures compatibility with existing communications drivers.