karen@kinetics.UUCP (karen) (07/08/89)
From article <29592.8907070118@yap.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, by inei@cs.glasgow.ac.UK (Nick Nei): > > After loading the 0688 s-records to the KFPS3, it stalls for about 20 > seconds and then says, "Sorry, The gateway appears to be busy". > The KFPS3 has 3.00 EPROM revision. I've have been hearing recently about this problem, though I hadn't heard of it happening with a PROM version earlier than 4.0. I've generally heard that this happens on a net with a fair amount of traffic, and my suspicions are that the FastPath receives a burst of traffic, which fills up the few buffers that the PROM code allocates for itself. It then can't receive the s-rec that you're trying to send it, because it has no buffer to put the packet in, and drops the packet. FastPath Manager will retry a couple of times, and if it still doesn't receive an ack for the s-rec, it puts up the (admittedly obscure) diagnostic. I'm not sure how solid that diagnosis is, because I don't think it's likely that you have so much LocalTalk traffic that the buffers are all being filled up. One way to deal with the problem is to download on a quiet net, or disconnect the Ethernet cable (though I don't think this is your problem, since the 3.0 PROM doesn't have an Ethernet driver). Another option is to get a newer version of FastPath Manager from Kinetics' tech support department (800-526-4872). This version "tries harder" than the old one to get the s-rec to the FastPath. > The error message > does not appear in the "Installation Guide" Appendix G "FastPath > Diagnostic Messages". This is actually a FastPath Manager diagnostic, not a FastPath diagnostic (they appear in the "Diagnostics" window), but you're right, we should document it. Thanks for pointing it out. I hope that this helps you. Karen Frisa Software Engineer Kinetics, a Division of Excelan, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Novell (whew!) karen@kinetics.kinetics.com ...!ames!amdahl!kinetics!karen