#par&lantastic 5/6
PAR and LAntastic 5.0/6.0 Problem
I have just purchased the PAR, Micropolis 2217A IDE hard drive and TBC-IV for
the PC.
Received it Firday 11-11-94.
I have installed it in an MS-DOS PC with an Intel 80486-DX 50 CPU, 16 Mb ram,
MS-DOS 6.2, 3D-Studio 4.0, MS-Windows 3.1, a VGA Wonder XL video card with a
Buss-Mouse on IRQ 2, a NEX2000 NIC card set at IRQ 5 IOBase 320. It has a 340
Mb IDE Hard drive, a 1.44 Mb and 1.2 Mb FD, 101 Key Keyboard, and a SVGA
monitor. A fairly plain system.
I installed the PAR, hard drive and TBC-IV as per the factory recommended
settings for the PC.
(the diskettes that I used to install the PAR/TBC-IV software are labeled PAR
V1.80 and TBC-IV 1.09)
When I render to my local hard drive or to the PAR without the Lantastic
network running, everything works fine.
However if I boot up my PAR and then my Lantastic program, I CAN NOT copy any
type of file
(*.txt, *.bat, *.TGA, ect) from any of the other network nodes to my hard
drive. Nor can I copy any network *.TGA files to my PAR drive from within the
PAR program.
I GET a DRIVE READ ERROR!!
This problem arises when ever I boot the PAR then Lantastic, or Lantastic then
the PAR. It even happens if I boot Lantastic and then initialize the PAR from
within the Lantastic Startnet.bat file.
If I DO NOT boot up my PAR drive, I can start the Lantastic network and copy
the *.TGA files from the other nodes to my local hard drive (drive C). If I
then reboot my computer without the Lantastic net, then boot up the PAR, I can
then copy the *.TGA files from my local hard drive (drive C) to the PAR drive
from within the PAR program, and the ANI file will play just fine.
I need to be able to read *.TGA files from across the net to my PAR drive!!!!
Can anyone tell me what settings I need to change, I have 6,457 *.TGA files
that I have rendered on the net, and need to copy to my PAR drive.
BTW I rendered the *.TGA files at a resolution of 752x480x.851 The PAR reads
these files just fine if I copy them to my local drive without the PAR booted
up, then reboot without the net and then boot up my PAR drive.
thanks Rodger
Lost in the NET