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Started by Denniss Riches (Far, Far Beyond ...
Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:00
TOS versus Iomega ZIP Drive
Author: Denniss Riches (Far, Far Beyond ...
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:00
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I've repeated this newsletter 'cause I'm not sure the original got out!!
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"!
At this stage the ZIP partitions contained the following data:
Partn L Partn M Partn N Partn 0
Folders 256 185 174 260
Items 930 648 791 1,085
Bytes Used 10,329,088 8,537,088 9,257,984 13,187,072
Bytes Available 14,726,144 16,518,144 15,797,248 11,868,160
You will see that TOS allowed me to write more data, without an error message,
to Partition O.
I decided to keep writing to Partition O until it was filled or I got an error
message!
I got the "Invalid Copy Operation" when Partition O contained the following:
Folders 275
Items 1,134
Bytes Used 13,737,984
Bytes Available 11,317,248
I don't know enough about either ZIP Drives or TOS to sort this problem out.
Any "knowledge", advice etc would be appreciated.
It may be relevant to note that one of my Syquest Hard Disk Partitions has had
283 folders, containing 1,138 files, totalling 22,990,848 bytes written to it with
no problems!
Den
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Re: TOS versus Iomega ZIP Drive
Author: 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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