Re: Upgrading IIGS HD System

["Chris Morse" <win32mfc@gmail.com>]

schmidtd wrote:
> > Now I just sent my first 800k disk from the //GS to my PC with ADT Pro.
> > I think I'll do the HD transfer overnight.. That'll be lots o' blocks!
>
> Blocks and blocks and blocks and blocks. :-)  I seem to remember it
> taking about an hour for a fairly sparse 32MB partition.

Oh, Hi!

Yeah, and it seems to be having a little difficulty.  First try, it
sent 3276 of 65535 blocks and then it hung on a send.  I dropped the
speed to 19200 (from 115k) and started everything up again, and went to
bed.  This morning it was hung near the end (it did send around 30 of
the 32MB.)  Now I'm trying a third time.  I didn't have any problems
with any of the 800k images.

I wonder if this can be fixed in the software.  My guess is that the
client thinks it has sent a block and is waiting for an ACK or NAK, but
the server is waiting for the block to finish before sending anything
back.  Deadlock.  Maybe the server could send a NAK if no data is
received after 20 seconds while receiving a block.

I'll keep trying, tho!

// CHRIS