evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (10/19/89)
Many thanks to those of you, especially Dennis, who posted hints and
suggestions regarding my Telebit apparently dropping characters whenever
telly's hard disk did a seek.
Late last week I cleared through Customs, the first copy of Esix 386
Revision C to enter this country (maybe for a while, considering the
quake...) Among other things, it is claimed to have a somewhat improved
COM1: driver.
I took the opportunity of the weekend O/S upgrade to do a low-level
reformat of the Maxtor drive (117Mb formatted in this context), this
time with a 1:1 interleave. I was told that the OMTI controller/Maxtor
drive combination could handle it.
To make a long story short, the modem problem vanished. Telly now gets
greater than 800 cps throughput on most of its Telebit news links,
regardless of in which direction the data flows. Disk seeks, even the
flurry of drive contortions which accompany a news expire, don't slow
down transfers substantially.
So? Was it the new interleave (the old setting was 1:2) or the new Esix
async driver that did the trick? Should I care, as long as it works?
--
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan
Canada could have enjoyed: English government,French culture,American know-how;
Instead we ended up with: English know-how,French government,American culture.root@nebulus.UUCP (Dennis S. Breckenridge) (10/20/89)
What do I win :-) Dennis