davecarr@umd5.umd.edu (David A. Carr) (09/28/90)
I would like to solicit some help from the net for an application which is giving me some trouble. I am outfitting a classroom 386s on an AT bus running DOS and Windows 3. For cooling reasons the machines are being moved out of the classroom and into a separate room. This means that the floppy drives are not accessible to the students. In order to remedy this, I am looking for a way to run a remote floppy at distances of up to 50 feet. So far, I have tested two products. The first was serial and worked at 50 feet, but was very slow. The other was fast enough, but used the parallel port and wouldn't work at 50 feet. Both had glitches when running under Windows. Does anyone out there know of a way to run a remote disk drive at 50' that will have at least 1/4 the performance of a regular floppy drive. Thanks in advance. David Carr (davecarr@cs.umd.edu)
kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) (09/29/90)
In article <7365@umd5.umd.edu> davecarr@umd5.umd.edu (David A. Carr) writes: >I would like to solicit some help from the net for an application which is >giving me some trouble. I am outfitting a classroom 386s on an AT bus running >DOS and Windows 3. For cooling reasons the machines are being moved out of >the classroom and into a separate room. I know this won't be a helpful comment but I just couldn't resist....... With most desk tops put together in a minimum configuration, the monitor dissipates almost as much heat as the rest of the works. Are you going to buy the users opera glasses so they can see the monitor screens from 50 feet away too?? Seems to me like moving the CPUs is the wrong solution to the problem. By the time you get done overcoming the shortcomings of this arrangement, the total cost would probably be more than a proper upgrade of the cooling would cost. In some cases, a couple of small fans work nicely. -- ======================================================== Ken Abrams uunet!pallas!kabra437 Illinois Bell kabra437@athenanet.com Springfield (voice) 217-753-7965