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Article #743Re: DOS Filesystem problems - transfering stuff on floppies screws up
From: Stefano Pagiola
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:21
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:21
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Dan Hartman writes > Has anyone else ever had trouble transfering files onto a > DOS disk bigger than about 200-300K? Every time I fill up > a standard HD with more than that, the PC will report a > read error when it tries to get it (And I've tested this > on about 5 different PC's) Is this normal, or should I > take my NeXT in to get the floppy drive replaced before > my warranty runs out (a couple of days, I believe). > I don't think its normal. I do this all the time, with no problems, in both directions. -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!morrow.stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Re: DOS Filesystem problems - transfering stuff on floppies screws up Message-ID: <1992Aug20.212124.11339@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <6663@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 21:21:24 GMT Lines: 18