CAPTAIN'S LOG (06 Jun 96): Kurt Weiske Opened a Channel to Malcolm Campbell

 KW> Malcolm Campbell wrote in a message to Gary Hardin:

 KW>  GH=> problem is with the 16450UART.  Binkley/ZEDZAP sends block of
 KW> 8192 in  GH=> size and the UART can't write them to disk fast enough
 KW> before the next  GH=> one comes in.

 MC> Gary, rather than using a RAM disk, which means you have to copy at
 MC> the end, why not use a disk-caching program such as HYPERDISK
 MC> (shareware) I use it at work, where I have an external USR V*.* and
 MC> 16450 UART.

 KW> Gary's problem is with the UART not being serviced fast enough due to
 KW> (?) slow writed to the HD. It would still have to write once to the HD
 KW> with the cache enabled. Subsequent accesses would be faster, but the
 KW> first access, the initial write to the HD, sounds like it's slowing
 KW> things down.

 KW> 16550 UART'ed serial ports are getting cheaper every day...

There MUST be someone out there running similar software and hardware on
the old 8450/16450 UARTs without this problem.  I would like to hear
from someone on how they are setup.  I CAN'T beleive that I am the only
one who has had this problem.  I am still thinking I am missing
something in my configuration of either Bink or BNU that is messing me
up.  I need to hear from someone with an old 16450 UART and an external
modem of at least 14.4 hooked to it.


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