Xenix Drivers ???
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Hi everybody,
I hope everything is ok with you...
I've a SCO XENIX 386 REL 2.2 machine and I wander where or how could
I get Drivers for reading and writing on a 1.44 floppy. Currently I
may only deal with fd096ds9 or 15 while I think I need the fd0135ds18
if I'm not very much wrong. I know I can build up the actual file but
my attempts have not been succesfull and i figure that if I get a
compiled driver I may avoid a lot of trouble....
I have connected this system via serial cable to a Dos machine. I then
login to the xenix one as tty from a terminal windows program. So far
so good.
The problem is that the xenix release I have does not let me to set
the baud rate over 9600 which makes everything unneddlessly slow.
Again I would be very gratefull if anyone could suggest a work around,
so that I may connect at 19200 or more.
Thanks for any thought on that.
fede
Shahab Manavi
Floppies. I suspect the drivers are still there, you have just removed
the entry from the /dev directory. Try recreating the inode this should
take care of the device driver problem.
386 XENIX has always supported serial speeds above 9600, in /etc/ttys
you need to set the speed to m, n, or o for higher speeds. Your serial
port may not support these speeds, though. However if you get both sides
to use hardware handshaking, then you should have fewer problems.
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Joe Foster of Borg
> Hi everybody,
> I hope everything is ok with you...
> I've a SCO XENIX 386 REL 2.2 machine and I wander where or how could
> I get Drivers for reading and writing on a 1.44 floppy. Currently I
> may only deal with fd096ds9 or 15 while I think I need the fd0135ds18
> if I'm not very much wrong. I know I can build up the actual file but
> my attempts have not been succesfull and i figure that if I get a
> compiled driver I may avoid a lot of trouble....
/dev/*install* can read and write just about anything supported
by the floppy drive hardware. /dev/*install is A: and
/dev/*install1 is B:. Here's what the device entries look like:
brw-r----- 1 dos sysinfo 2, 64 Mar 10 18:33 /dev/install
brw-r----- 1 dos sysinfo 2, 65 Sep 05 1995 /dev/install1
crw-r----- 1 dos sysinfo 2, 64 Nov 09 1992 /dev/rinstall
crw-r----- 1 dos sysinfo 2, 65 Nov 09 1992 /dev/rinstall1
> I have connected this system via serial cable to a Dos machine. I then
> login to the xenix one as tty from a terminal windows program. So far
> so good.
> The problem is that the xenix release I have does not let me to set
> the baud rate over 9600 which makes everything unneddlessly slow.
> Again I would be very gratefull if anyone could suggest a work around,
> so that I may connect at 19200 or more.
stty exta will change to 19200, and stty extb will change to
38400. I also have source and binaries for a clone of PKZIP which
works fine on Xenix and is fully file-compatible with PKZIP 2.04g.
Perhaps this can speed your transfers even more?
> Thanks for any thought on that.
> fede
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