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- Path: bsuvc.bsu.edu!02jmfelton
- From: 02jmfelton@bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: File copying problems
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 30 Mar 96 20:18:06 -0500
- Organization: Ball State University
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- Message-ID: <1996Mar30.201806.1@bsuvc.bsu.edu>
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- In article <19960330.5C5E28.2BC6@an133.du.pipex.com>, m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
- > 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.
- I've done various transfers between both PC's and Amiga's and other
- Amigas and i've noticed that anytime I format a HD disk to DD and try
- to use it I get all kinds of errors. If i reformet the same disk back
- to HD it is just fine. I doubt this is your problem. But you did say
- you were using LD (I assume you mean 720k which is technically called
- Double density) disks. Are these actually HD disks formated to DD?
- If so then I strongly urge you to buy some actuall DD disks and see if
- that clears up your problem.
- Hope that helps,
- joh
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