| From: | Peter Hutchison |
| Date: | 14 May 2000 at 13:25:47 |
| Subject: | Re: max transfer |
> CW> Listen very carefully...............
>
> CW> *MAXTRANSFER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SPEED.*
>
> CW> It is simply the size of the largest block transfer the drive
> CW> is capable of, at any one transfer.
>
> CW> It is a "drive adjustment" not a "system adjustment"
>
> Could you please address whether adjusting the Maximum
> Transfer, via HDToolBox, on a drive already in use is safe. I
> assume that this can be done without wiping out any data but
> I would like you, or someone else, to explicitly say it's safe.
>
> I know it would still be a good idea to have everything
> backed up but would the the back-ups be needed or just a good
> idea just in case?
>
I`ve chnged it 1000s of times with no data lose. The only way to
loose data is to:
1. Delete/add partitions
2. Reszie partitions
3. Changing the filesystem eg to SFS, PFS2
4. Adjusting the block size - it can confuse the FS
Peter
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