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[Hal MacArgle <halinux AT kvinet.com>]

On 05-07, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> 
> > Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > >
> > > Steven, what did you use to zip bl3 in the first place 
> > > - DOS pkzip or something else?
> > 
> > DOS pkzip 204g
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
> 
> Hal reports that he can transfer fs.img and get the same checksum at both 
> ends using ethernet, with or without zipping.  I wonder what the parallel 
> cable is doing to mess things up.  

        Please correct, anyone, if I'm wrong: IIRC, reading
somewhere, that plip uses nibbles, 4 bit width, not able to do 8 bits
at a time because of handshaking or acking, so the bytes have to be
unassembled and re-assembled on the fly.. Also, wonder if the
parallel port BIOS settings might have something to do with it; EPP,
SPP, etc? Older MB's supported only SPP..




> I may try transferring between drives on the same computer, out of 
> curiosity, and then serial cable (Kermit).  Slow, but only that one file 
> is needed.  Hal said ethernet is nearly instant.  How fast is 10Mb 
> ethernet relative to plip?  Plip took about 50 minutes for 170MHb.  It 
> does not seem any slower than transfer between drives on the same computer 
> to me.  

        10mbs ethernet is 10 million bits per second which means 1
million bytes, give or take.. Is this correct?? 170mB, upper case B
meaning bytes, would be around 170+ seconds, again, give or take,
around <3 minutes.. This "octal" mind not very sharp anymore. <g>

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20)
           
             Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
                  only a genius can truly simplify..
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