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- A couple weeks ago, I posted a message asking about problems with
- writing large files on Mac floppy disks (that message is included at the
- end of this). I got a small number of replies, and am including the
- relevant information here:
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- Other folks have seen this same problem under NeXTSTEP with both the
- Workspace manager and Executor (so, Executor seems free of blame).
- These folks all seem to have the external PLI Superfloppy drive. No one
- with another vendor's drive reported seeing this.
-
- One fellow pointed out that as of NS 3.2, NeXT withdrew support for at
- least formatting on external drives. I have vague memories of reading
- something like this in some release notes somewhere, but I can not
- locate it now (I'm in the midst of packing, so if it was on paper, it is
- in a box somewhere).
-
- My sense, though, is that this is a PLI drive problem, probably not a NS
- problem, and certainly not an Executor one. (alas, my drive is long out
- of warranty...)
-
- I'd still love to hear from anyone if they have further thoughts on this
- topic (I'm at davidjohn@kira.net.netcom.com). If there is further
- public discussion, it should probably move to comp.sys.next.misc,
- though.
-
- Thanks
-
- david john burrowes
-
-
- ORIGINAL MESSAGE.
-
- Subject: Large Mac files: a question
-
- This is not an executor issue, per se. But, it's closely enough related
- that I thought I would ask y'all (sorry for the potentially wasted
- bandwidth)
-
- I have a NeXTCube running NS3.2, and an external PLI SuperFloppy (2.8).
- I find that if I write large (larger than 100 or 200K, say), I will be
- unable to read the file, usually, on a Macintosh.
-
- That is, I write a 600K file to the Mac disk (using either HFS_XFER or
- in the NeXTSTEP workspace manager), take it into my Quadra 950 at work,
- I'll then get a 'disk error' error message from the Mac when I try to
- read about the files (this seems to happen about 80% of the time)
-
- Have any of you seen this before? Is this a standard 'feature' of the
- NeXT machines with Mac files?
-
- Thanks for any comments.
-
- david john
-
- p.s. Yes, it does seem to work fine with smaller files.
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