In article <92328.122525JAB156@psuvm.psu.edu> JAB156@psuvm.psu.edu (Joe Bruce) writes:
>I have the same type of setup:
> 16550 UART
> V.32/Turbo (12Kbps)
> 483/33 w/8MB
> Qmodem 5.01, OS/2 2.0 GA + SP
>...and here's my MODE command from my STARTUP.CMD:
> MODE COM2:38400,N,8,1,OCTS=ON,BUFFER=ON
>I also have my Qmodem program object set up with COM_DIRECT_ACCESS off,
>HW_ROM_TO_RAM on, HW_TIMER on, IDLE_SECONDS 60, and IDLE_SENSITIVITY 100.
>I can multitask without affecting the file transfer, though the foreground
>tasks are much slower. Hope this helps you...
>
>Joe
Well, COM_DIIRECT_ACCESS should be on, if your 16550 UART isn't a 16550AFN,
then it's brain damaged and should be exchanged (if possible) for a 16550AFN,
or just buy one of those. othere than that, I'd take the idle_seconds to 30, or even less, turn the HW_ROM_TO_RAM off, and even the HW_TIMER off. another
change you might want to do is to set PRIORITY=ABSOULTE in the config.sys.
I had similar problems but when i put a 16550 AFN UART in, I didn't get that
problem anymore. When I was using procomm + is a dos session, I could
switch to another dos session and work while I was doing 9600+ transfers in
the background. Now that I'm using hyper access/5 in OS2, my machine doesn't
even slow down when it's downloading in background. and yes, I've a similiar
machine (486/33 8 megs ram) I don't use the mode command, and I have