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- From: mikew@net-link.net (Mike Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive formatting
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 04:56:27 GMT
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- In article <4l7ek7$8tb@siufuxsun01.unifr.ch> hitz_o@UFPER6.UNIFR.CH (oliver.hitz@unifr.ch <Oliver Hitz>) writes:
- > Hi...
- >
- > >I've had some pretty funny experiences with Zip drives. I was trying to
- > >back up with an A1200 DKB 030/50 and Ferret scsi. Any file of
- > >significant size eg: 1Mb would corrupt on being transferred to the zip
- > >drive. I set the mask to $ffff and lower in HDTools with no benefit. I
- > >also kept getting errors on the zip disks.
- >
- > Are you sure that you have correctly terminated the scsi bus? This is sometimes
- > also a source of transfer errors.
-
- If it only fails on largish files that sounds more like a MaxTransfer problem
- to me. I wouldn't expect that you'd overflow with something as slow as a Zip,
- but I'm not sure. Bring MaxTransfer WAY down. On my 4000's internal drive,
- which has 64K cache, I had to take it down to 0xfffe, which is 64K. If the
- Zip drive has less cache than that, take it down further. Lowering MaxTransfer
- really doesn't do much to your overall speed.
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