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- From: Steve_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problems - Large Files getting corruptted
- Date: 24 Jan 96 03:57:39 -700
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Message-ID: <784.6597T237T1963@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- On 24-Jan-96 03:27:02, Brian Pirie wrote the following text about "Hard Disk
- Problems - Large Files getting corruptted" (article
- <1602.6597T1403T1498@es.co.nz>) ...
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- > Has anyone experienced problems as I have described above ? On my FFS
- > partition will changing the MAXTRANSFER or MASK values help ? ( They are
- > currently 0xffffff and 0x7ffffffe ).
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- Brian:
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- I had the same problems with executables on the A4000's IDE controller. This
- does indeed have to do with the MAXTRANSFER flag on the drives. I've got all
- of mine set to 0x1ffff (4-f's). No problems since.
-
- Your MASK is OK.
-
- Hope this helps
- - Steve.
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- Message composed 24-Jan-96 03:55:12 (PST)
- Vancouver, BC Canada
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