GL> In a message of  Bruce Wilson (1:106/2000) writes:
 BW>> That said, what's the situation with respect to your download buffer
 BW>> and flow control during disk writes?  With respect to using a "V.E."
 BW>> Courier with older, slower systems, Joe Frankiewicz advised me to
 BW>> set Telix for DOS to use the smallest possible download buffer and
 BW>> to drop RTS during disk writes, so writes would be frequent but of
 BW>> short duration and incoming data flow would be stopped while they
 BW>> took place (flow control being hardware CTS/RTS only). Can these be
 BW>> adjusted with the Winmodem and TFW?
 GL> This got me thinking to another old problem on some machines,
 GL> it may not be Bill's problem but...  if he has IDE drives it
 GL> might be a contributor... wasn't it also advised that LBA mode
 GL> be turned off?  Wasn't that something that could hold off
 GL> communications interupts? I also notice that you're posting
 GL> from a new location...
not LBA... that would prevent the use of most large drives... i think you are 
thinking about multiple block mode... that's where the controller will que up 
several requests to be serviced at once. some early controllers did hold off 
the interrupts too long with multi block mode turned on...
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