Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!rosevax!cimcor!mike
From: mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XENIX VS Micoport
Message-ID: <434@cimcor.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 15:11:36 GMT
References: <16217@watmath.waterloo.edu> <166@bhjat.UUCP> <366@igloo.UUCP> <377@igloo.UUCP>
Organization: Grenier & friends, Forest Lake, MN
Lines: 23
Summary: faster drives

In article <377@igloo.UUCP>, jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch) writes:
> Very strange, because when using Microport with several different motherboards,
> the same problem exists. Also, when using Tandy XENIX on the same motherboards,
> the problem goes away. Are you running anything while getting a LARGE (more
> than 3 meg compressed) of news? Try catting a large text file from the main
> console at that time, and wave bye-bye to Microport.

I'm sorry, I don't get that much news at a shot to run your test though
I'd be suprised if it did anything to the system. I've also
set the Nice value in defs.h(?) in the news software to run the uncompression
at a lower priority. I have catted (sp?) large text files without
any problem  while news was unpacking, at the same time as my wife
was working on the 9600 baud vt200 terminal.

You mentioned an improvement going from the 65ms drives to the 40ms drives.
Perhaps the reason for my success is my faster 28ms drives (maxtor 1140).
I've had this system running since I installed version 2.3 with dosMerge
for a couple months now without any crash at all. Maybe Microport
isn't robust for all hardware configurations but it sures works good
on this one.

    -Mike
    {rutgers, amdahl, ihnp4}!bungia!cimcor!mike