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Hints and Tips
7.5
• CC Turbo & Laser Direct Drivers − A few people have discovered a
problem that occurs when you try to run the RISC OS !Printers after
having run a Turbo Driver or a Laser Direct driver. The error “Module
PDriver 3.16 or later is required” appears. To clear this, do a
*RMReinit PDriver before using the Acorn driver.
7.5
• File copying on floppies − When copying from one floppy to another,
the overall copy time can be reduced by opening the task manager and
dragging the Next slot to 800Kb (or 1600Kb for an HD disc if you have
the memory). This means that the next task to request space (i.e. the
filer) will have enough space to read in the entire contents of one
floppy, so that you don’t have to swap discs more than once.
7.5
On large copy jobs (say between two hard discs) the larger area the
filer gets, the faster the copying because fewer reading/writing cycles
will be needed. You can either adjust the Next slot or, once copying has
begun, drag out the Filer Action Window task as large as it will go.
When copying is complete, the space is regained.
7.5
• Floptical drives and faulty floppies − An article in a German PC
magazine claimed that, due to their much more elaborate construction,
flopticals drives could handle many discs which caused normal floppy
drives to give up; I can report to all floptical owners that this claim
holds true for the Acorn world, too.
7.5
A software upgrade arrived on a disc which my floppy drive could not
read − a disc error 08 was reported and Verify found a massive 56
defects! My floptical drive, however, had no problem at all with the
disc − it verified OK and the software could be loaded and runs
perfectly. So, when the readability of a disc is a borderline case,
giving the disc to the floptical drive to read might well help. Jochen
Konietzko, Köln, Germany
7.5
• Printer driver problem − “SWI &42940 Not known”. This error was
reported recently in another printer driver problem. A quick look at the
PRM showed this to be a BufferManager SWI. The buffer module had become
unplugged which was causing the problems. It is not such an obvious
problem though because the error appears to come from the printer
driver. The solution is to press <f12> and type *RMReinit BufferManager
<return> and then another <return> to get back to the desktop. A
7.5