Re: losing communication after a few seconds

[kurt.horton@Central (Kurt Horton)]

I cannot say this applies to current sparc stations, but many of the
older models cannot generate 57600 bps serial IO.  Because of details
of the internal clock rates and divider chains when requesting 57600
what you get is 51200 bps (if memory serves me correctly).

This would allow two such machines to communicate at a putative
57600 (but actually 51200) but neither could communicate with
a machine generating a true 57600 bps connection.

This caused me problems long ago until I figured out what was wrong.

Late model Sparc machines MAY have fixed this problem -- I've not tried
57600 in years.

   kurt

> From owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thu Jun 19 00:48 MDT 1997
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:14:56 +0300
> From: Martin.Von.Weissenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Martin von Weissenberg)
> To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tommy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: losing communication after a few seconds
> 
> > I pressed the icon, and it told me to hit the hotsync button.  It gave
> > the three cutesy tones and starts syncing.  It got to the point of
> > identifying user.
>      ..............
> > The PilotManager freezes totally, and I had to kill it.  I tried 19200
> > and I got farther.  I guess that's something to know about an IPX.
> > Perhaps it can't handle 38400.
> 
> Lower the connection speed and try again.  For me, 38400 works but at
> 57600 the connection freezes.  9600 might work for you.  You should be
> able to set even lower speeds by editing the preferences file in your
> PilotManager directory (for me it's ~/.pilotmgr/preferences) but I
> don't know how PilotManager reacts to this.
> 
> > It synced successfully, or at least it thinks so.  I set up memo and
> > backup, since I don't use cm, at least not yet.  But it said
> > 
> > 	No memo files found.
> > 
> > and that's not true.  I am not sure of what the various fields in the
> > properties menus mean, so maybe I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> Make sure you have SyncMemo v1.04_01.  You might have to change lines
> 411 and 610 (?) where the output of the command "file" is parsed -- my
> version of file puts a tab before the file type, when SyncMemo expects
> a space.
> 
> Make sure you have specified the correct directory in the properties
> dialog.
> 
> --Martin
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