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- From: fillmore@emr1.emr.ca (Bob Fillmore 992-2832)
- Subject: Re: ParNet problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.181357.21758@emr1.emr.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:13:57 GMT
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- Scott M. Ballew (smb@pern.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
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- : > Also how long can the cable be ?? It's about 3 metres long.
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- : This is a problem I saw when we recently moved. When we set up our
- : A2000 (server) and A1000 (client), the A1000 would seem to work for a
- : while, then it would either guru (GOMF caught these), hang, or just
- : plain fail to correctly read a file. Since we had just built a new
- : cable, I checked it and rechecked it several times for problems.
- : Finally, we went back to the older cable and some extra jumpers to
- : make up the length. All worked fine. My best guess is that we had a
- : problem with crosstalk between wires in the new cable. Both the
- : working and non-working cables were about the same length 17 feet
- : (certainly more than 3 meters) but the working cable is a flat ribbon
- : cable and the other was a 25 wire bundle. This may be what you are
- : experiencing. Does anyone have a _real_ maximum length for these
- : cables?
-
- : Scott
-
- I have been running for the last week with 3 cables plugged together,
- 6 feet + 10 feet + 25 feet = 41 feet, with no errors (so far).
- The 10 foot cable is a custom ParNet cable that I ordered from
- Design Computer Systems, 4132 10th Ave N, Lake Worth, FL 33461.
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