by Hi,
I have a parallel port ZIP drive attached to a 386. It is recognised and
mounts fine.
Large files (>1.5M) copied to the drive using FTP (localy or across the
network) or samba (mounted on a Win95 machine) cause error messages along
the lines of "host has closed connection" or "drive not available" and
until the orange (busy) light on the drive turns off, writes or reads from
the disk are scrambled or unavailable. Usually the error messages appear
towards the end of the writing of the file and usually the write turns out
to be successful.
My attempts to fix this problem include:
* changing timing parameters of the ppa device (as much as doubling them,
without significant effect)
* reducing the network buffer size using the window parameter in the route
command
Can anyone suggest the source and a possible fix for this problem
Rohan Tronson