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DiskCopy and SyQuest

#2717
From: the Wizard of Speed and Time
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 01:47
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My setup:

A2000 (rev 6.2 motherboard) wich Super Agnus and 1 meg MEMF_CHIP
SupraRAM2000 populated to 4 meg RAM
HardFrame/2000
SyQuest SQ555 removable platter drive

The question - 

I am having problems diskcopy'ing between platters.  I have, however, gotten
it to work.  If I just boot off my boot platter (which among other things
has ARP, and runs FaccII and MachII 2.4) I can do the diskcopy.  This is
what happens:
1) I type 'diskcopy DH0: to DH0: noverify'
2) all but 13K of my fast ram and 450K of my chip ram gets grabbed.
   diskcopy pauses, then gives it all back.  On the screen I get a message
   to the effect of
       Close tools for extra memory
       Warning: will take 11 swaps
       press [RETURN]
3) the diskcopy then goes fine

If I boot off a vanilla disk, or just run MachII then the following:
1) memory disappears
2) memory comes back and diskcopy hangs.  No messages, ^C won't affect it,
   but the machine doesn't crash.

I was thinking that is there is too much memory available and diskcopy
has to back up too much (44 meg) then it might get confused.  It's not
bad memory, since  I ran the SupraRAM test program on the board after this
happened and everything checked out fine.

Soo, any ideas?



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From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (the Wizard of Speed and Time)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: DiskCopy and SyQuest
Summary: does diskcopy have a problem with too much mem?
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.014759.21868@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 01:47:59 GMT
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