#: 12850 S7/Telecommunications
    03-Nov-91  18:55:24
Sb: #12806-#Quick-B Problems
Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)

     Well, I did some checking: I booted up starting with an old boot disk and
used sucessively newer disks until I found where the problem started. The
problem started not with the addition of the hard drive or any of the serial
ports, but with the addition of SACIA.
     I also tried the interrupt driven version of B&B's CC3Disk and this was
radically wworse. You could see lots of missing characters while online at 300
baud.
     The horizontal bars that occur are very digital in nature. They look like
those above Ascii 127 characters that you can generate in RSDOS but they flash
by too fast. However, when I see them I know there will be download problems.
     I have another boot disk that has a CC3Disk version that is used when
running PCDos. This does not support the no-halt floppy controller but it too
causes the flashing bars even without SACIA present. There are no download
problems in this situation though.
     When I log on to CIS after I get the CONNECT message from the modem, I hit
Cntl-C. With the standard ACIAPAK driver, I have to hit return to send the
Cntl-C down the line. With SACIA, I don't have to hit return; the Cntl-C
apparently shoots right out. This is a nice feature for CIS use.
     Is there maybe something in SACIA that needs setting with the new XMODE it
comes with in order for it to perform correctly?

                              What do you think?
                                                  Paul

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