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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
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Subject: Copy does a Forbid?
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Date: 17 Mar 91 18:40:28 GMT
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I aplogize for posting a message that doesn't flame another hardware 
platform in this group.  Please bear with me while I ask an actual 
question.  Maybe a Mac user wil answer me....
 
Anyway, on to the question.  I'm using the ARP Copy command to back up 
and restore my hard drive to a spare hard drive, and in order to speed 
things up, I set the BUF parameter to 2000 (approx 1M).  Now it seems to 
read/write a lot less, but I notice the screen blanker I'm using stops 
dead in between drive activity, as does the mouse pointer if you're 
using it.
 
Does this version of copy (or all copy commands) have to do a forbid 
during the copy to validate the bitmap or something?  Why would s 
standard DOS command shut down multitasking?
 
By the way, does anyone else use FaccII for their hard drives?  Any 
horror stories, or am I safe?
 
- Dave (as above or plummerd@max.cc.uregina.ca)
 



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