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- Subject: Re: 16550 vs. 16550AFN
- Message-ID: <Btnw8I.55H@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:41:02 GMT
- References: <3737@randvax.rand.org> <BtIDJ1.Ex2@animal.gcs.co.nz> <7926@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
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- In article <7926@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> jong@boole.seas.ucla.edu (Jong Y. Lee) writes:
- >In article <BtIDJ1.Ex2@animal.gcs.co.nz> lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu) writes:
- >>I am not sure the Boca's do that yet. In my experience with a 386/40
- >>8M running Windows 3.1 and Procomm/Win 1.0 I can get up to 1600cps
- >>but if I switch away, I get overruns. My Boca distributor tells me that
- >>there are some firmware upgrades coming which will buffer data and thus
- >>help to alleviate the high interrupt rate to the CPU.
- >>
- >>Laurence Chiu
- >
- >
- >I was wondering..Do you still get 1600cps in windows with disk caching program
- >on such as smartdrv or ncache? In order for me to get anything higher than
- >1000cps in windows with my SupraFaxModem v.32bis, I always have to turn my
- >cache off otherwise I get interrupt latency problem. Maybe it's just
- >smartdrv.exe that I'm using, but..
- >
- >Jongyoon
- >
-
- Yes I do have caching on. I use the 3.1 smartdrv with 2M of cache. I turned
- off write caching since I was a little worried about that. Perhaps your
- drives are not fast enough? I use 17ms Seagate IDE drives (1144A and 3144A)
-
- Laurence Chiu
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