Computone Intelliport Serial Board

[Steven Harrison]

In article <1989Mar26.091015.1214 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> romwa at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Royal Ontario Museum) writes:
>With reference to a posting last week about problems with
>linking HDB uucp and "old" uucp Xenix, I think the problem is
>due to a brain damaged Computone Intelliport card.  This
>cluster controller works fine with standard dumb terminals on
>it, but fails miserably with uucp and kermit file transfers
>between the Xenix box and a PC.  Seems like it cannot handle
>steady streams of data.
>
I do not know who you have talked to at Computone nor am I sure if you really
believe what you are saying but let me say this.  We have been using their
boards for about five years now on a number of different machines, and
a variety of modems. This includes a 300 Hayes modem and most recently a
Telebit Trailblazer.  By the way we have used a number of UUCp's including
System 5.3 HDB and all have worked just fine!

I would suggest that you look at your configurations in /atx/attype and verify
that you understand how these work. All of this is, of course based on the
fact that you really are having trouble.

>Computone knows about the problems and they said they are
>working on it.  How can they release serial boards that can't
>do uucp????  Don't they test anything down there?
>
You are right how could they release something that doesn't work?????

Problem seems to be on the other end not in Georgia.  Again I recommend you
look closely at configurations in the file mentioned above and maybe even
your own hardware.  We certainly have not sold every possible combination 
that there is on the market today.

>Also, I cannot get a standard Hayes 2400 modem to work
>consistently on this board.  The modem correctly picks up the
>line on dial in  but there is no carrier as the Computone board seems
>not to be communicating with the modem.  Occasionally, after a
>disable/enable sequence the modem will work correctly for one
>call, then the line goes into outer space again, until some
>fortuitous sequence of events such as a reboot or dis/enable
>sets things right.
>
Let's face it Hayes modems are not the best modems in the world to use
for bi-directional UUCP traffic.  I would suggest that you set your
dialers scripts such that &D2 and &C0 are set for dialing out, and &D2 and &C1 are set for dialing in.  Make sure you reset the modem at the beginning
of the dialer script also, so that you can be assured of some known
state.



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