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Article #9882Re: Disk copying
From: johnsone
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 10:33
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 10:33
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Written 8:02 am Jan 17, 1990 by yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu
> In article <}|R&F_@rpi.edu>, francis@pawl.rpi.edu (Frank J. Schima) writes...
> -I have one FDHD floppy drive on a mac IIcx. I have 5 meg RAM, so
> -why does it take more than one disk swap to copy one disk to another?
> -I realize the first swap is to check to see if there is space on the
> -destination disk (among other things), but it can take 3 or more swaps
> -sometimes.
>
> Are you running under MultiFinder? I suspect it may have something
> to do with the partition size.
Partition size of what?
Erik A. Johnson
Graduate Student, Aero/Astro Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
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