[ECOS] Slow serial transfer to redboot

["Peter Blair" <peterb at turnpikeglobal dot com>]

Regards All,

I've been experiencing extremely slow transfer rates when downloading my
srec applications to an i386 target from both NT4 & 2000 machines.

I've tested with multiple cables to numerous target hosts from multiple
source hosts with no change.  I've been using the pre-compiled redboot
.BIN image from the sources.redhat.com site, and was wondering if this
build of redboot has given anyone else any trouble.

The strange part is that the first burst is quite quick, and I am able
to transfer 2k with no trouble, but after that initial transfer, the
rate drops dramatically.  I left the download to run overnight, and
checked the next morning to see that it had taken 5 hours to transfer
the file (while running at 38400 baud.

Thanks for you time,
Peter Blair