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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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Subject: Re: buffer buffer who has the buffer?
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Date: 8 Aug 89 22:15:00 GMT
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I wonder what I've discovered?  To answer the specific questions, I am
not using any new version of kermit (its 3.85, unmodified.).  The hard
drive is an Everex 40D, using Apple SCSI card.

I have receive packet length set to 250 bytes.  I just downloaded a 32k
file and watched the hard drive's light very closely.  It flickered at
the start, after a couple of packets, then only after 21, 36, and 33 .
(my counts could be off one or two since I might have missed one or two
while I was writing them down.)  So that means some piece of software
has something like a 9,000 byte buffer.  Who?

Oh yes, I also have a Transwarp GS, but I can't think that would be
buffering anything going to the SCSI port.

I suppose I could revert back to system disk 4.0 and see if memory of
how it used to work is playing tricks on me, but I don't really want to
do that!  (I dont' think I ever bothered to configure a bootable system
disk that had the SCSI driver on it.)

TMPLee@dockmaster.arpa