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- From: peh@ffi.no (Per Espen Hagen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Trouble with "copy" command on WB 3.0?
- Date: 15 Dec 1993 08:24:22 GMT
- Organization: Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt, Kjeller, Norge
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- References: <1993Dec14.214502.18949@ac.dal.ca>
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- In article <1993Dec14.214502.18949@ac.dal.ca>, mcasey@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >
- > I've got a rather strange bug I'm wondering if anybody else has run into.
-
- You bet they have!
-
- > It has to do with the copy command in WB3.0. Just about every time I use it
- > to copy a large file (>130k), it tends to corrupt the files. Needless to
- > say, this causes a bit of grief with installing things on the hard drive.
- > After the installation script has run, I have to go back and recopy the
- > larger files using DirWork, which, of course doesn't use the standard copy
- > command. I only noticed this this last week when I finally got a hard drive,
- > and started using installation scripts. Before then, I always used DirWork,
- > so I never noticed.
-
- Another FAQ...
-
- The error is not with AmigaDOS, but in the firmware (ROM) of the IDE drive!
- Most IDEs only support file writes of less than ~128k.
-
- The workaround for this bug is to change the MaxTransfer value of each
- partition of the disk to 0x1fe00 (=255x512). This can be done with the
- software you used to prep the drive. There's usually an "Advanced Mode"
- or an "Advanced Settings Page" where the MaxTransfer setting can be
- modified. If you do it right, you will not have to reformat or re-install
- your HD.
-
-
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