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- From: hwstock@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (stockman harlan w)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Lap-Link style PC-to-PC disk copies via ethernet?
- Message-ID: <393@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:03:00 GMT
- References: <5049@equinox.unr.edu>
- Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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- In article <5049@equinox.unr.edu> malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:
- >Does anyone know of a way to do Lap-Link style wholesale disk copies
- >via ethernet, vs. via a (feh) 9600/19200 serial line?
-
- Laplink over a serial line is 150,000 bps, not 9600/19200. The transfer
- is interrupt-driven, and skips the normal polling interface. Parallel
- port I/O over Laplink is ca. 500,000 bps.
-
- So there.
-