One feeble suggestion: set the NCU priority to high or realtime
(ctrl-alt-del, task manager, processes, right-click NCU).
But. . . I've never been able to get NCU to back up on my Windows NT P-III
laptop. Setting it to realtime helped, it got halfway through the backup
before it failed. Without realtime, it always fails just after "creating
backup file". I found no help running at 9600 vs the default 38400 bps.
I never tried slowdown.exe because I just went back to my Windows 95 P-166
computer and did the backup there. It worked fine on the slower computer,
no slowdown.exe, no realtime (and therefore, I know it wasn't corrupted data
on the MP2000).
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Smith [mailto:bensmith_at_mailhost.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:54 AM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newbie NCU/NBU (on a PC) Question
At 11:37 29/08/01, Laurent wrote:
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newbie NCU/NBU (on a PC) Question
>From: "Laurent Daudelin" <laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com>
>
>
>on 29/08/01 10:26, Ben Smith at bensmith_at_mailhost.net wrote:
>
> > access to a Mac). I have downloaded both NCU and NBU and, in
anticipation
> > of problems, slowdown.exe too. I can now happily install packages using
> > either program (no need to use slowdown.exe), but get a 'communications
> > error -1' when trying to backup to the PC. This happens regardless of
> > whether my 16mb flash card is inserted and also regardless of the
settings
> > on slowdown.exe, although on the slower settings I sometimes get to see
a
> > 'creating backup file' message for a few seconds. The FAQ talks about
'Get
> > Info' on a Mac for this error, but has no info on what this error means
on
> > a PC. BTW: I'm running NT4 with 512Mb Ram on a P3.
> >
> > Any ideas or tips please? Despite owning a few Newts I've never got
round
> > to making a PC cable from the Mac ones I got with them, so the MP2000
(and
> > its included PC cable) are my first attempt at this... :(
>
>So, the error mostly happens even before you see "Creating new backup
file"?
>What serial speed are you using? Are you sure that this matches what you
>select on your Newton. Did you ask the previous owner if he was able to
>backup reliably?
>
>-Laurent.
I'm connecting at 9600 baud (on the Newt and the PC) using both the package
that came with NBU (Serial 9600 Baud) and what appears to be the built in
offering.
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