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- From: dgr@fdl.fdldotnet.com (Dan Robotka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hardrive Problem?
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 04:11:09 GMT
- Organization: FullFeed Madison (newsmaster@msn.fullfeed.com)
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- >I recently bought a Maxtor 1.6 gig drive for my 1200. I use an external
- >XDS case to mount the 3.5" drive. Before this I had a maxtor 345 meg.
-
- >The problem is that I have noticied, is that while working downloading files
- >thru the internet, sometimes I have problems getting a good image of the
- >file. For example, using AMosaic, I downloaded the same file 3 times. The
- >first two files, I could uncompress fine. The last one had errors when I was
- >uncompressing it. The file does not have any errors when copying it and all
- >three files were the same size. The partition had no errors. At first I
- >thought it was something I setup wrong, but double checked everything. I
- >never had any of these problems with the old drive.
-
- I found out a little more information. When the drive is active, the copy
- command does not always work. I can manually copy a file and the contents of
- the copy are sometimes altered. I tried increasing the buffers in the
- drive setup, but to no change. It seems to be more consistant once the bad
- copies start. For a while, every copy I did (on a larger file), with
- no other disk activity would cause the destination file to be altered (in
- about the same location in the LHA archive). I did one copy with BUF=0 and
- the problem went away. The only change to my system is the harddrive!?!
-
- HELP!!
-
- Dan Robotka
- dgr@fdl.fdldotnet.com
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