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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: File copying problems
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- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 02:42:29
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- C.H.E.B. (ctc@coventry.ac.uk) wrote:
- : I download files on my Uni computers and transfer them to my Amiga 1200 on
- : LD PC disk. Often the file did not come though. I put this down to dodgy
- : Uni disk drives.
-
- Quite possibly. When transferring files from Suns at college to my Amiga a few
- years back I noticed similar problems when using the floppy drives on certain
- machines. I put this down to head misalignments between drives and stuck with
- drives which I knew to be reliable.
-
- : I've now noticed that files are often chewed when a straight copy takes
- : place on my hard drive. Any ideas?
- :
- : I've had this problem since before I bought a Blizzard 030 accellerator
- : with 4Mb RAM, but the copying problem does seem to disappear in the main
- : when I turn the board off.
- :
- : Anyone got any ideas? I have replaced copy in C: from the one off my
- : original workbench disks as well as from a coverdisk and this has not
- : solved the problem. The problem seems particularly accute when copying
- : largish files.
-
- Sounds like a maxtransfer problem - the A1200's IDE interface is known to be
- bad for this, particularly when using accelerator cards. Use HDToolBox to
- lower maxtransfer to a guaranteed "safe" value (200K = 00032000 hex seems to
- be safe on all systems), and gradually raise it until you encounter errors.
-
- -- Mat.
-