Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: NFS problems with AOS 4.3 Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 18:09:57 GMT References: <4456@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM's message of 14 Oct 90 05:24:08 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: colossus.cs.psu.edu In article <4456@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: Steve> I saw this about a year ago when a DECStation 3100 was an NFS client Steve> of an RT running AOS 4.3 10/88. Now, I've got a Cayman GatorBox trying Steve> to use the same RT as an NFS server and the same error appears: Steve> xdr_bytes: bad size FAILED Steve> This appeared on the DS3100 only with large files being manipulated Steve> thru the server. Similarly, on the Mac, large file copies on the Mac Steve> fail because of this. I haven't yet found just how large the files Steve> have to be to cause this to fail. Trivial size files (<3K) seem to Steve> work OK, whereas 700K files fail. Steve> Has anyone investigated, more fully characterized and fixed this Steve> problem on the RT? The RT's NFS implementation will only accept/generate transfers of 4Kb or less. If you can get the GatorBox to restrict it's requests to 4Kb you should be OK. -- Dan Ehrlich /Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176