hanu@tampella.tampella.fi (Hannu Mikkola) (03/07/91)
We're having problems with our two Logical Connection Plus machines. First of all I'd like to know if anyone knows the fax number or uucp mail address for Fifth Generation Systems. And now to the problems: The two LCPs are connected to each other via the network cable. There are two printers and six PCs connected to them, the printers and one pc are connected via Centronics and the rest 5 PCs via RS-ports. All the ports have been configured with overraid feature because the LCPs 'smart' self configuretion didn't seem to work correctly in all cases. One of the printers (Canon laser) is configured as default connection for all of the PCs. I'd be grateful of any information concerning the following problems: Problem one: Whenever LCP is reseted, it sends garbage to both of the printers, and both printers must be soft-reseted by hand after that. Is there any way to stop this? Problem two: Whenever the PC that is connected to LCP via Centronics cable is turned off, the LCP starts to receive continous data from it's port, and starts to send it to printer. This data consists mainly of line feeds. The problem disappears if either end of the Centronics cable is disconnected (the LCP end or the PC end). Problem three: One of the LCP ports is connected to Decserver, in order to use the printers from our lan. The LCPs soft handshaking doesn't seem to work at all. Small prints (a page or so) go through all right but if the file is a bit larger the LCP refuses to inform the decserver that it's not ready and the rest of the file gets lost. Moreover, when our mainframe notices this, it tries to send the file to LCP again and again, resulting infinite attempts to print the same file and always getting to the same page. Problem four: This may be a coinsidence, but we've noticed that ports number three and six on both LCPs produce much more errors than the other ports. In fact, a PC connected to port three on either of the LCPs can't even read the configuration of the LCP. Hannu Mikkola Tampella Papertech Ltd hanu@tampella.fi -- and not content with that with our hands behind our backs we pull jesus from a hat get into that! get into that!