Re: Serial, 115Kbps, 2.2, 2.4

Paul Jakma (paul@jakma.org)
Mon, 2 Apr 2001 07:30:34 +0100 (IST)


On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Tom Sightler wrote:

> III) I get a fair number of dropped packets at 115Kbps, enough to cause
> problems and a significant speed decrease. Simply dropping the serial port
> rate to 56K seems to solve the problem.

does the system have IDE disks? (DEC Venturis GL.. should be)

Try hdparm -u on all your IDE disks... should improve things.

> Later,
> Tom

regards,

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