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From: davecarr@umd5.umd.edu (David A. Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Need Remote Diskette Drive At 50 Feet.
Message-ID: <7365@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 17:47:43 GMT
Reply-To: davecarr@umd5.umd.edu (David A. Carr)
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I would like to solicit some help from the net for an application which is 
giving me some trouble.  I am outfitting a classroom 386s on an AT bus running 
DOS and Windows 3.  For cooling reasons the machines are being moved out of 
the classroom and into a separate room.  This means that the floppy drives are 
not accessible to the students.  In order to remedy this, I am looking for a 
way to run a remote floppy at distances of up to 50 feet.  So far, I have 
tested two products.  The first was serial and worked at 50 feet, but was very 
slow.  The other was fast enough, but used the parallel port and wouldn't work 
at 50 feet.  Both had glitches when running under Windows.

Does anyone out there know of a way to run a remote disk drive at 50' that 
will have at least 1/4 the performance of a regular floppy drive.

Thanks in advance.

David Carr (davecarr@cs.umd.edu)