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Hi Paul Copsey,

in demon.tech.amiga about > Re: News d/l  Constriction  - cures?? < you wrote:


> > Hi Steve, Try 8n1.device, from aminet It solved my problems
> 
> 'Till it starts crashing. Even the author of 8n1.device admits there is a
> bug in it which affects AmiTCP use, but he can't find it, so there's
> unlikely to be a fix. I wouldn't advise using this for too long.

Catch-22, it's letting me run my serial port at about twice the speed of the
standard device.

> On to Steve's original problem, there is a command with the squirrel to
> switch the thing to polledio soemwhere on the disks, for this very reason,
> since the squirrel will affect serial xfers. It slows the HDD down a
> little, but that's less annoying than the loss of speed.

Hmm, this set me off on a 'FM hunt' and ...unfortunately... I can't find any
refenerence to this  - there is one section where you can influence the
'POLLINTERVAL' of the squirrelscsi.device, but that simply sets the time
interval between checks of removaable media devices, i.e. CDROM. The default
is 3 seconds, I wouldn't have thought that this [default] interval would have
such an effect??

Whadya think?


Late appendum:

9.SYS:CD32/C> squirrelscsi ?
DEVICE/K,POLLINTERVAL/N/K,HOSTID/N/K,POLLEDIO/S,BLINDIO/S: 


Despite there not being an entry in the Manuel it would seem that POLLEDIO is
supported, as a 'switched argument', my limited knowledge would suggest that
this is 'on/off' ;)  But

> squirrelscsi POLLEDIO y or Y or N or n or anything (?) returns a "wrong
                                         number of arguments" error message.

Any ideas? Obvious pointers would be frowned upon simply because I'll feel
silly, but if they work, well I might forgive you ;)

Cya,

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Steve... 
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