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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Problems with losing characters over serial line
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.003147.1644@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 25 Feb 91 05:31:47 GMT
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I'm having serious problems losing characters over the serial port
while I'm doing intense disk activity in the background.  What I'm
doing (at this very instant) is backing up my Minix partition to
a DOS partition using ``tar | compress | doswrite'', so that I can
backup my entire hard drive onto tape.  (I haven't looked into whether
Colorado backup systems can be run under Minix).  Anyway, I'm losing
characters left and right while on the modem here.  While reading news
I'm losing entire screens at a time.  I'll try to look into it some
time RSN, but has anyone else had similar problems?  Could it have
anything to do with doswrite?

I'm running Minix-386, virtual console patches, no estdio.

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