From: lectro@stein.u.washington.edu (Jonathan Maier) Subject: Re: raw-writing files to disk, any special requirements? Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 02:34:41 GMT
In article <1992Nov1.003813.17643@u.washington.edu> I wrote:
> I've been trying to "rawrite" the SLS disks "a1" and "a2" to 1.2M
>formatted 5.25" disks... unsuccessfully :-(Yes, I'm using a HD drive and
>HD disks) When you format the disks, do the resulting amounts of byte
>storage on each disk have to be exactly equal or just greater than or
>equal to the size of the a1 and a2 files? Does track/sector layout
>matter? I only had time to try a couple different disks, so I suppose
>it is possible that they are just bad disks. BTW, I'm using the older
>"more stable" version of "rawrite."
I've been trying some more. The raw-write works for a little while
(varies from 1 to 20 seconds), then I get a "DMA Overrun" error. I'm
using a PC that's in a computer-lab and is on a LAN. Disk files a1 and a2
were ftp'd from my unix account and stored on the local hard drive. Is
this error probably due to the system configuration in the lab or what?
<R>eplies welcomed.
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