Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!mintaka!spdcc!ima!esegue!Postmaster From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: ISC asy/floppy drivers still broken? (was: LPI C review) Message-ID: <9008261258.AA12058@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Date: 26 Aug 90 16:58:34 GMT References: <3687@rsiatl.UUCP> Sender: Postmaster@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: <2050@jwt.UUCP> In article <2050@jwt.UUCP> you write: >Does ISC *still* not have a working asy driver or usable floppy driver? ISC finally cleaned up the asy driver in the X5 update to 386/ix 2.0.x. The throughput is OK, particularly if you have a 16550 FIFO serial chip. It has separate /dev/ttyN and /dev/acuN special files so that dialing in and out on the same line is locked in the kernel without having to fool around with uugetty. I have an internal Telebit modem that I upgraded to a 16550 and get respectable uucp throughput above 1100 cps. The 2.2 floppy driver isn't superb but it is at least reasonable. Disk throughput under vp/ix is great, it apparently reads and writes full tracks on the raw disk. The driver also makes a respectable try at determining the density of a disk when you open it. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!esegue!johnl