NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/hardware/13229

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From: [e-mail] (George Francis McBay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: TrumpCard/ST157N problem
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Date: 25 Jul 92 19:49:46 GMT
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    Yes, this is a "please help" problem.. :)  I've been using a IVS
TrumpCard w/ WB1.3 and TCUtils 1.3G for a couple of years without trouble.
About 2 months ago I upgraded to 2.04 and TCUtils 2, and since I've been
getting rare but annoying read errors on my hard disk... They didn't seem
to occur until I formatted the disk under 2.04's new FFS and used TCUtils to
do it (That is, it worked fine under 2.04 until I changed something by
reformatting it)  I have two suspicions but don't know for sure what the
problem is...First..the max transfer default rate under TCUtils 2 is different
than that with TCUtils 1.3 (In fact its about twice as high..Could this be
wrong and cause the errors?)  or, I've heard of lots of people getting
read/write errors on floppies under 2.04, I havent had this trouble but
most of my floppies are still in old file system, so is it the new file system
that doesnt work quite right under 2.04 with older systems such as A500s?
The write/read errors are not really there, it seems, as retry'ing usually
works and they pop up unpredictably....Can anyone offer a suggestion as to
what the problem is and how I can fix it?

Please email to [e-mail] if you can help...