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Help! TOS v1.40 Versus ZIP Dr

Help! TOS v1.40 Versus ZIP Dr

Post by Steve Swe » Tue, 30 Sep 1997 04:00:00




SUBJ: Help! TOS v1.40 Versus ZIP Dr

 d> I don't know enough about either ZIP Drives or TOS to sort this problem
 d> out.

 d> Any "knowledge", advice etc would be appreciated.

 d> It may be relevant to note that one of my Syquest Hard Disk Partitions
 d> has had 283 folders, containing 1,138 files, totalling 22,990,848 bytes
 d> written to it with

Dont forget that the minimum unit of disk space is a cluster, so a 1byte file
will still take one cluster, this could be 512 bytes in size up to 64Kbytes
in size depending on your patritioning scheme.

 Regards from STEve & his nice warm cosey PAK'd   MegaSTE.

*  MegaSTE 40Mhz 68030, 68882 FPU, 4 Meg ST 16 Meg TT RAM Link 97 SCSI II *
-=  The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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1. Help! TOS v1.40 Versus ZIP Dr

I am limited to the amount of data I can write to my ZIP disc and I don't know
why.

My setup is: Atari 1040STFM with 4meg RAM and TOS v1.4, connected, via Link97,
to an Iomega ZIP Drive containing a ZIP disc formatted tofour 25mb partitions,
which in turn is  connected to a Syquest exflyer Hard Drive containing a
230 mb removable  Hard Disk which has 9 partitions of varying sizes.

The setup is "controlled??" by HD Driver v6.13 and I have allowed for 400
folders!

I was copying a great deal of FaST Club Software to the ZIP disk when the
system refused to copy any more files to the first ZIP partition (L).

The first system message was "Invalid Copy Operation".

I rebooted and again tried to copy to "L", this time the system message was
"ACCESS NOT POSSIBLE TOS terminated the operationt"!

At this stage the ZIP partitions contained the following data:

                   Partn L          Partn M          Partn N           Partn 0

Folders                256              185              174               260
Items                  930              648              791             1,085
Bytes Used      10,329,088        8,537,088        9,257,984        13,187,072
Bytes Available 14,726,144       16,518,144       15,797,248        11,868,160

You will see that TOS allowed me to write more data, without an error message,
to Partition O.

I decided to keep writing to Partition O until it was filled or I got an error
message!

I got the "Invalid Copy Operation" when Partition O contained the following:

Folders                275
Items                1,134
Bytes Used      13,737,984
Bytes Available 11,317,248

I don't know enough about either ZIP Drives or TOS to sort this problem out.

Any "knowledge", advice etc would be appreciated.

It may be relevant to note that one of my Syquest Hard Disk Partitions has had
283 folders, containing 1,138 files, totalling 22,990,848 bytes written to it with
no problems!

Den
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