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Notebook PC Losing Connection To Network Driv
DocumentID: 610850
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:34:36 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The error "Drive P: Not Ready, Abort, Retry" appeared when a user printed a large document (30K plus) to a network printer on a Banyan Vines network from an Everex Tempo LX 386 notebook computer. The user could print from all other stations (which were not notebooks) without getting the error. Solutions: The customer was using a Xircom Pocket Ethernet Adaptor which was configured through the parallel port on the notebook. Increasing the communication buffers (similar to increasing buffers in SHELL.CFG on Novell) on the PC side to the maximum corrected the problem. The card could not keep up with the transfer rate from WordPerfect, and because the buffer was small, WP was filling up the buffer faster than the buffer could empty itself.

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