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 Precedence: bulk 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. 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.