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From: mwarchol AT flash DOT net
Message-Id: <199707241414.JAA06591@endeavor.flash.net>
To: MCLACHLA AT tui DOT lincoln DOT ac DOT nz
CC: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thr, 24 Jul 1997 10:20:14 -0800
Subject: Re: floppy-copy errors

  I cannot help you with your question however your post brings-up one of my
own.  You listed NWdos 7.01.15 and I thought that the product NWdos stopped
at 7.0 where Opendos now began at 7.01?  Is that correct and are there some
patches accounting for the .15 portion you refferr to in your question?
      Thanks,

On 1997-07-24 MCLACHLA AT tui DOT lincoln DOT ac DOT nz said:
 MC>Priority: normal
 MC>X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com
 MC>Precedence: bulk
 MC>Hi All
 MC>Has anyone else found errors after copying to floppy disk?  I use
 MC>Novell DOS 7.0.15 and get errors in copying large files to floppy
 MC>disk.  I detect the errors using COMP.  Typically, there are between
 MC>0 and 7 errors (different bytes) per file (I use three 350kB
 MC>test files).
 MC>I have found that if I clean boot, then the errors disappear.
 MC>Adding other programs makes the errors recur.  However, after many,
 MC>many tests I have yet to establish any logical pattern in the
 MC>results as to which setups work and which don't.  The same problems
 MC>occur with DR-DOS, but *much less* frequently with MS-DOS (i.e.,
 MC>only 1 file mis-copied out of 135).
 MC>The system is an AMD K5-PR133 on an ASUS TP24 motherboard (onboard
 MC>i/o).  There are absolutely no problems on my 486 system running the
 MC>same Novell DOS version.
 MC>I have tried swapping the floppy disk drive (and cable) from my
 MC>working 486 system, but this made no difference.  The remaining
 MC>possibilities are something to do with DR/NW/OpenDOS, the
 MC>motherboard, or the cpu.  Any thoughts and opinions would be
 MC>appreciated.
 MC>Cheers
 MC>Andrew McLachlan,  PhD student.             <MCLACHLA AT lincoln DOT ac DOT nz>
 MC>Dept of Entomology & Animal Ecology, P.O. Box 84, Lincoln
 MC>University, Canterbury, New Zealand.  ph. +64 3 325-2811, fax. +64
 MC>3 325-3844.

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