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#Controller quest.

    17-Oct-92 01:14:09
Fm: Michael Maryka 72321,3504
To: Joanne Dow 71162,3257
Hello Joanne- Please excuse me for slipping in here. I assume from this thread that you are still using a HardFrame controller. I have had mine for several years and it has worked PERFECTLY in my unaccelerated A2000. I just purchased a new Supra 14.4K V32bis modem and boy was I surprised when I tried downloading at the fast speed. When ever my telecom pgm (tried several using CTS/RTS handshaking) wrote to the HardFrame and Quantum drive I got Zmodem CRC errors ;^( I can get it to work if I set the MaxTransfer down from 130K to 1024!!! bytes; but that drops my HD disk speed from over 500K down to 100K ;^( Not acceptble; like driving your sports car all the time in 1st gear. I noticed that GVP has a patch pgm for their Series II Scsi that auto matically reduces the # of bytes transferred at one time when ever the serial device and HD are active at the same time. How hard would it be to write one for the HardFrame?? I hope I am not destined to buy a new Controller card, buy a 3rd party serial card, downloading to ram: or floppy (yechh!!) or buying an accelerator (Probably and excellent idea) Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks — Mike —