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From: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Does uucp have to be slow?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.002637.2437@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 90 00:26:37 GMT
References: <4221@lib.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause)
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In article <4221@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In the process of getting my shiny new Tower XP running, I need to transfer
>about 30 meg of data from my current PC/AT system. My options are 360K PC-DOS
>disks (yuk!) or uucp over a serial cable. Of those two, I'd much rather do
>uucp. I'm running SysV 3.02.01, without the HDB enhancement (I have it, but
>haven't installed it), and an octal I/O board (not the HPSIO :-( ).
>
>I was able to get the two machines talking. There are two problems: 1) It
>won't run over 1200 BPS, and 2) it won't run for more than a few hours. In
>both cases, the failure mode is the same: The AT (running Microport System
>V/AT 2.4, with HDB) eventually hangs, and, if I used Uutry to start the
>connection, reports an "alarm 1". The Tower simply gives up, leaving the
>status "CONVERSATION" in the STST.* file. I have to reboot the AT to clear
>out the uucico process.
>
>I have the AT set up to initiate the connection, and the Tower has the port
>defined to be a dial-in port (it's /dev/tty00, if that matters). I haven't
>tried running it the other way yet.
>
>Any suggestions out there? Should I have the Tower call the AT? Should I jump
>through the hoops required to get HDB on the Tower (I don't expect the
>installation to be difficult, but getting the file to the Tower may be)?
>Do I need to scrounge an HPSIO? Who killed Laura Palmer? :-)
>
>Thanks in advance...
>BTW, if anyone has doubts about the value of Usenet, just ask a technical
>question. You'll see the value in no time! :-)

Trust me, you *WANT* to get an HPSIO board into that system.

Verify whether your system has a 9-pin RS-232 connector(s), or whether it
has 15-pin.  The only difference for the HPSIO upgrade is that if you 
already have the 15-pin ones, you are spared the hassle ordering the 
TTY bulkhead plate itself.  In any case, you get the joy of ordering 
and installing the HPSIO-to-Bulkhead cables.  Lotsa' little screws!

The HPSIO will allow you to speak at least 9.6K baud to the AT...
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