Re: File transfer errors with new MB's

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From: John Navas
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 17:38

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Justin Hawkins (jhawkins@tardis.apana.org.au) wrote:
> I recently upgraded to a DX2/66 (from a 386SX-25). This was a
> motherboard only upgrade, so I still have the (crappy) old IO card
> installed (with 8250 UARTS). In DOS I find that now file transfers
> at any speed have errors, whereas before, I didn't. I tracked it
> down, it turns out that whenever disk IO occured, the file transfer
> would get an error. In OS/2 this does not occur. Downloading to a
> RAM disk under DOS allows error free transfers.

> I shrugged it off as a peculiarity of my motherboard+controller (it
> didn't bother me since it didn't manifest itself under OS/2) until
> my friend upgraded his motherboard (from a 386DX-40) to a DX2/66 as
> well, and the same thing happens.

> What causes this? I suspect it has something to do with the way DOS
> does it's disk IO. Is there any way of curing this under DOS, as my
> friend won't be able to upgrade his OS for a while yet.


Switch to a 16550A UART.

--
Best regards,
John  <JNavas@Netcom.com>

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