Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!vms.macc.wisc.edu From: yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Disk copying Message-ID: <2999@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Date: 18 Jan 90 14:05:37 GMT Sender: news@dogie.macc.wisc.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 25 In article <20200077@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes... -Written 8:02 am Jan 17, 1990 by yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu - > In article <}|R&F_@rpi.edu>, francis@pawl.rpi.edu (Frank J. Schima) writes... - > -I have one FDHD floppy drive on a mac IIcx. I have 5 meg RAM, so - > -why does it take more than one disk swap to copy one disk to another? - > -I realize the first swap is to check to see if there is space on the - > -destination disk (among other things), but it can take 3 or more swaps - > -sometimes. - > - > Are you running under MultiFinder? I suspect it may have something - > to do with the partition size. - -Partition size of what? - A.K.A., the "Application Memory Size" as set in the Get Info box for the relevant application under MultiFinder. Though I suspect this isn't the case anyway. Under UniFinder even w/a lot of RAM you still have to swap disks a few times when copying one from another. Best bet if you have several to do is to just use a disk copy program, like the shareware DiskDup+. >>> Internet: yahnke@macc.wisc.edu <<< >>> Mille voix chuchottent <> <<<