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Article #1256Transputer network problems
From: Philip McLauchlan
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 11:23
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 11:23
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We have a network of transputers hosted by a Sparc-2 with the Archipel Volvox S-Bus board as root. We have intermittent network problems, of the kind everyone seems to get, i.e. Error - iserver - unable to write byte **** to the boot link. Recently the problems have been getting worse, and we would like to have some software to tell us where in the network the problems are occurring. Has anyone ported ispy to a Volvox board? Suggestions of the cause have included failure to reset some of the transputers in the network, use of long cables (up to 2m) and maybe the C004's on out B008 motherboards not setting the links correctly. Has anyone any other suggestions? The problems have only got bad six months after we bought the stuff from Paratech, who are unlikely to be of much help since they have gone bust. Phil McLauchlan.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!robots.ox.ac.uk!pm From: pm@robots.ox.ac.uk (Philip McLauchlan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Transputer network problems Message-ID: <1992Oct3.112326.1625@thomas.robots.ox.ac.uk> Date: 3 Oct 92 11:23:26 GMT Sender: pm@robots.ox.ac.uk (Philip McLauchlan) Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK. Lines: 17 Originator: pm@thomas.robots