lito@ecl.psu.edu (LCubed) (05/24/91)
hi, i'm having a problem getting my deskwriter to function with my radius rocket card. it works perfectly fine with the rocket turned off. however, turning the rocket on yields ' the printer is not responding. make sure it is properly connected....' dialog box. i'm running system 6.0.7 with the deskwriter 2.1 driver. i've had to borrow 4 Mb of RAM from another machine so i can run my cx in an unaccelerated mode whenever I need to print. has anyone else encountered this problem???? are there any software fixes I should know about?? (oh, yeah, the deskwriter is hooked up via a serial port. the rocket works fine with the appletalk imagewriter on our lab network). any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance, lito lucena -- lito lucena | Keeper of the Ranma Archives lito@ecl.psu.edu (InterNet) | Japanese Animation Junkie lito@psuecl.bitnet (BITNET) | Disclaimer: i don't know what 'it wasn't our fault !!!!! Whaaaaaaa ....' | i'm doing, why should they? "I'm a good example of a bad example ..."
neff@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Dave Neff) (05/29/91)
Regarding DeskWriter with the Rocket accelerator: It is a common problem that some accellerators seem to break the ROM code that supports 57.6 K baud. Since the DeskWriter is one of the few products that uses this baud rate, it commonly has the problem. It seems like accelerator cards should patch the ROM code but they must not (or else they don't test the patch very will at 57.6 K baud). Best workaround I can think of is to use the DeskWriter in AppleTalk mode. The accelerator cards don't break that (or else people would be very unhappy). It will cost you a couple of LocalTalk/PhoneNet adapters howere. Also contact the makers of the accelerator card, suggest they test it with some 57K baud products, such as the DeskWriter. Dave Neff neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM