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From: laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Two questions, Minix ST
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Date: 4 Jan 91 09:45:07 GMT
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Hi there,

1) Did anybody experiment with the RTS line in 1.5.10[.3]?
   We're trying here to get two ST's up through UUCP (It works, in the
   archives soon...), but are hampered by some oddity in the Gandalf
   Thingamajigs. Model 125 needs to be hand-switched for switching on
   and off, but Model 120 allows the computer to do this through RTS. The
   problem is that Minix ST 1.5.10 doesn't touch those signals, and the
   port-selector soon decides to ignore RTS since nothing happens.
     What we need is some way to drop RTS while the line is not needed.
   This could be done by selecting B0 for speed (I'm told PC-Minix does
   this re. DTR), but... stty(1) rejects it, ioctl(2) ignores it, and
   do_ioctl (in the kernel) circumvenes it. Sounds like somebody didn't
   like B0 :-)

2) I'm about to commit myself into buying a Megafile 60 HardDisk. I seem
   to remember somebody complaining that it wouldn't work (quite some
   time ago, I agree, but still). Also all this talk about partition
   sizes.. Is that going to bite me? Megafile users please respond.

Bert Laverman
bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org -or laverman@cs.rug.nl