Re: Transfer time with ADTgs - 2.5 *HOURS*?

["Mad Martian" <news@madmartian.com>]

I fixed it!

Ok, that's what I get for just looking at the pinouts and not reading the
instructions. 1, 6, and 8 on the PC were connected to each other, but not
all at the D9 end. Once I changed that, it worked at normal speed.

"Mad Martian" <news@madmartian.com> wrote in message
news:XaB%7.9884$JF.84589@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
> It is taking me 2.5 *hours* per 140k .dsk file from a PC. This seems
rather
> excessive. I used the pinouts listed in the transfer faq to build a
> combination 2gs high speed modem cable/null modem adapter in one cable
(faq
> #20, end of question 6 answers, using dsub9f on the PC end).
>
> Now doing the math, assuming 1 bit per baud at 9600 baud, 9600 bits per
> second at 8 data bits + 1 stop bit per byte means 1066 bytes per second.
> 140k bytes = 143,360 bytes should transfer in about 2.2 *minutes*. Adding
> time for software overhead (error checking) and file saving shouldn't add
> 2.3 *hours*. Is my math or my cable flawed? The disks do work and no
errors
> are reported during transfer on either end.
>
> Here's the pinouts I used from the faq:
>
> IIgs       PC      Signal
> -----------------------------
> 3           2         RXD
> 5           3         TXD
> 4,8        5         GND
> 2           7         RTS
> 1           1,6,8   CTS, DSR, DCD
> 7           4         DTR
>
> Thanks.
>
>