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Article #295Re: TOS versus Iomega ZIP Drive
From: Paul Womar
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:00
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Denniss Riches (Far, Far Beyond Bedlam) <denr@denr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > 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 four 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"! I'm not familar with the messages you give but if I was you I would check your Zip disk(s) with Diamond Edge or some other disk utility and check for corruption because this sounds really odd. Are you sure you aren't exceeding th elimit of imes in the Root directory of the partitions? I seem to recall it being something quite low like 128 items.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112f4b,b15da7a50c3fda96 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f4b,public From: Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) Subject: Re: TOS versus Iomega ZIP Drive Date: 1997/09/27 Message-ID: <19970927130732440145@pwomar.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 276033590 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pwomar.demon.co.uk [158.152.90.30] References: <875344652_OASIS_@denr.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.atari