130XE Ram Disk problem

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From: Steve Karasek
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1986 15:51

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I want to make a lot of copies of a disk, so I tried putting it on the RAMdisk
and then using DUPLICATE DISK from DOS 2.5 with source 8 and destination 1.
The DOS manual says that this can be done, although the disk will only have
499 sectors, which is fine.  However, the disk gets formatted with 707 free
sectors, and then I get an error 138 (Device Timeout) after about 2 minutes.
It sounds like a lot of copying occurs, but the directory shows up empty.
Is there a way around this problem?  Is my copy of DOS bad?  Thanks in advance.

						Steve Karasek (sfk@wucs.UUCP)
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From: sfk@wucs.UUCP (Steve Karasek)
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Subject: 130XE Ram Disk problem
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 11:51:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 11:51:40 1986
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