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>From: alan anderson <address@hidden> >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 199906161836.MAA27208 NFS Alan, >I may have spoken too soon when saying that our slow data transfer >problem seemed to have been solved. I think that we had left the >os2 machine we were working mounted back on hobbes, while thinking >we were mounted on waldo. Hence, it seemed to work at the speed we >were used to. This makes more sense to me. >Another problem appeared today for me. > >I can get a listing of an upper air sounding as expected when mounted to >hobbes using > UL LIST 72649 12 > >The same command on the same machine when it is mounted to waldo gives > no sounding available > >I looked at the files available on both waldo and hobbes, both have the >expected MD files (7, 8, 9, 18, 28, 19, 29 on Hobbes) with these plus >many more (as expected) on waldo. the files on waldo are also larger, >but that is also as expected. I do not understand why waldo will not >give me the sounding list. I just logged onto waldo as 'mcidas' and did the following: cd workdata mdu.k LIST 1 100 - this showed that the MD files are accessible ul.k LIST 72469 12 STATION:72469 DAY/TIME:1999169 120000 LAT/LONG:397500 1048665 LEVEL TEMP DEW PT DIR SPEED HEIGHT 840.0 10.8 8.0 220.0 2.5 1608.0 818.3 14.1 3.5 255.0 5.1 1829.0 804.0 16.4 0.4 281.8 5.6 1977.5 789.1 15.3 -0.2 310.0 6.1 2134.0 761.0 13.1 -1.3 315.0 6.6 2439.0 733.9 11.0 -2.4 325.0 8.2 2743.0 700.0 8.2 -3.8 335.0 10.8 3139.2 681.7 6.3 -4.6 340.0 12.8 3353.0 656.4 3.7 -5.7 335.0 13.8 3658.0 608.7 -1.6 -7.9 320.0 18.0 4268.0 586.1 -4.2 -9.0 315.0 21.6 4573.0 584.0 -4.5 -9.1 315.5 21.4 4602.5 566.0 -6.1 -13.1 319.5 19.7 4848.6 563.9 -6.3 -13.1 320.0 19.5 4878.0 523.0 -11.3 -13.1 307.4 17.6 5461.8 500.0 -11.7 -17.7 300.0 16.4 5807.1 481.4 -12.0 -23.2 300.0 12.3 6097.0 475.0 -12.1 -25.1 301.7 10.6 6200.1 462.4 -13.8 -26.3 305.0 7.2 6402.0 400.0 -22.9 -32.9 315.0 10.8 7488.0 392.7 -24.1 -33.7 315.0 11.3 7621.0 345.0 -32.3 -39.3 305.8 13.2 8552.6 316.8 -36.6 -48.5 300.0 14.4 9146.0 300.0 -39.3 -54.3 305.0 13.8 9524.7 264.7 -45.9 -56.8 285.0 14.9 10365.0 252.9 -48.3 -57.7 280.0 15.9 10670.0 250.0 -48.9 -57.9 280.0 15.9 10748.4 241.0 -50.9 -58.9 280.0 19.4 10988.3 230.4 -51.6 -61.6 280.0 23.6 11280.0 200.0 -53.9 -69.9 280.0 21.0 12194.5 199.0 -53.7 -70.7 279.7 20.9 12226.7 150.0 -60.5 -83.5 265.0 15.4 14016.2 148.0 -60.7 -83.7 262.3 15.0 14099.8 142.7 -59.5 -83.3 255.0 13.8 14329.0 142.0 -59.3 -83.3 255.5 13.7 14358.3 ... So, from the 'mcidas' account on waldo the data is accessible with no problems. The question is why it is not accessible from your OS/2 machine when it has waldo's data disk mounted. I would suspect that the REDIRECTions in place when waldo's disk is mounted are incorrect. >After the above, I stopped. Image transfers from waldo work, but are slow, >not sure they are as slow as last week. I guess I will get a stop watch >and measure before doing any more. Try doing an image load off of waldo using ADDE. On your slow OS/2 machine do the following: DATALOC ADD RTIMAGES WALDO.STCLOUDSTATE.EDU IMGDISP RTIMAGES/GW-VIS STA=KSTC EU=IMAGE MAG=2 It will be illustrative to compare loading an image accessed by NFS with one by ADDE transfers. Tom