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From: mackeown@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK (W. Mackeown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HELP! (Damaged data)
Keywords: floppy disk, damaged data, big_file_copying
Message-ID: <847@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK>
Date: 30 May 89 14:33:32 GMT
References: <3475@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <4402@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: mackeown@csisles.UUCP (W. Mackeown)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK.
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In article <4402@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> s110031@pollux.ucdavis. (Andy Hsiung) writes:
>I have the same problems.  It could be that wear and tear causes the disk 
>drive to eat up a disk once in a while. ...


A rather tedious source of wear and tear on single disk-drive 1040ST's
is the need to swap source and destination disks many times while copying
a large file from one disk to another. It seems as if the ST uses a
very small buffer space for file copying.

Does anyone know of a way to force the ST to use more of its internal
RAM as buffer space during the file copying procedure so that disk-
swapping would be cut down a bit ? 

Should I post a summary of any useful replies I receive ?

-- 
William Mackeown, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
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