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From: the Wizard of Speed and Time
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 04:41

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My setup:
A2000 (1 meg chip RAM)
4 meg fast RAM
HardFrame/2000 SCSI controller
SyQuest SQ555 removable platter drive
2 SQ400 disk cartridges

My questions:
1) Microbotics's RDPrep defaults to a MaxTransfer of 131072 bytes.  What is
the optimum number for the SyQuest?  Also, what kind of speeds (from
diskperf) are typical for the SyQuest/HardFrame combination?

2) Can I use diskcopy to back up one cart to another, even though I only
have a single drive?  How do I do it?  Someone has told me what he did,
but when I do it, the diskcopy command just hangs and does nothing.
As I don't terribly want to backup to 40 disks and then restore to the other
cart, please, please answer if you can.

Thanks in advance!!


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