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Re: i've got the laptop
> > The laptop is probably a good way to go. You may even be able to
> > run Laplink on it, although this depends mainly on the speed of
> > the laptop.
Again, I believe very strongly that the laplink at
ftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/laplink.* should work
(although I haven't tried with anything above 400MHz --- but if it was
written in Turbo Pascal and therefore suffers from such a bug than
there should be patches around on the net). Honestly, I would very
strongly advice you to use the laplink from the above address rather
than try and remote-install from the PC3K...
> That is interesting. My laptop is a Pentium 100 Toshiba and have had
> very very similar experiences with it. For example, sometimes I could
> use its serial port to program PIC devices with a serial programmer
> ONLY if I booted DOS 6.2 from a floppy, never Windows 95 DOS mode
> worked at all for that.
Hmm --- this sound more like a hardware-problem to me. Certainly both
_should_ work equally well, as long as your serial port has a working
FIFO (which should be true for any Pentium-based computer, as by that
time the serial chips were long past their teething troubles...).
> So, expect anything if you connect to it anything but probably a
> mouse!
Nah, at 9600 pretty much any serial port ever build should work if
powered by a >= 10MHz CPU(*). Otherwise we really are talking about
what amounts to a hardware-defect.
> Next thing will be copying that laplink.exe (I've just downloaded
> following your advice, thanks for that)
Please do that, it should work (provided everything else was set up
correctly too :-).
> > If you have an SRAM PCMCIA card, you could format it on the PC3100
> > and then plug it into the laptop and transfer files, such as Telix.
> > Have tried this on an 800MHz laptop running Win2000 and it did work
> > (after the laptop loaded the drivers it needed).
>
> I am most interested in this, as I also tried it and it didn't work. I
> am actually a bit clueless at the moment. I have card services
> installed in my laptop, both under Windows 95 and under Linux, both
> working successfully with different cards. I plugged the Kingston SRAM
> card mentioned and then tried Windows, then Linux.
This should work (it worked for me out of the box, but there's a
discussion on this on the mailing list at
http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~utcke/lists/sharp-pc3k/threads.html
as this does not always work under windows 95).
> Windows: Type of card and memory size is identified, driver is
> automagically loaded and card is added to the list of devices. I guess
> the only thing left, as the card was already formatted in the PC3100
> and in fact contains a couple of files I created there (I've double
> checked and the files are still there), is that a new drive letter is
> created but there's nothing new under "My Computer".
Hmm. Please have a look at the mailing list archive and see if you
can find help there.
> Linux (the results are pretty similar, if you are familiar with
> Linux!): Type of card and memory size is identified, /dev/mem0 is
> linked to it properly, but
> "mount -t msdos -o fat=xx /dev/mem0 /somedir"
> won't work, it complains about the file
> system because it fails to recognize any file system there.
Maybe you need to mount one of the other /dev/mem0* devices? I also
vaguely remember that the card could not reliably be mounted every
time (but only about every second time), so maybe just pop it out and
back in again?
Hope this helps
Sven
(*) As long if at most 2 serial ports are connected. With more than 2
serial ports --- and in particular with more than 4 ports --- all bets
are off due to irq-conflicts.
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