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to: DAVID BOWERMAN
from: BILL KIRBY
date: 1998-04-01 12:16:00
subject: Courier vs Zoom CRCs & Disconnects

Hello David.
31 Mar 98 19:33, David Bowerman wrote to Bill Kirby:
 DB> Bill Kirby wrote in a message to Francois Roy:
 FR>> or perhaps its trigger level could be set a tad lower.
 FR>> Sometimes, having the Bios set to do "long block transfers" (disk
 FR>> I/O) will keep the machine busy long enough during disk writes to
 FR>> mask interrupts long enough for the CRCs to occur.
 BK>> How do I do this with OS/2 and SIO.
 DB> Try HELP IBM1S506.  A sample CONFIG.SYS entry would be:
 DB> BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /A:0 /U:0 /!SMS
MY Config.Sys entry is..................: BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /V
 DB> which disables block transfers on adapter 0, drive 0.
Thanks....!!!!!
 DB> Regards,
 DB>        David
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 DB> (1:153/290)
Bill
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