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Re: TOS versus Iomega ZIP Drive

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From: Paul Womar
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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From: Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar)
Subject: Re: TOS versus Iomega ZIP Drive
Date: 1997/09/27
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