Michael J. Mahon wrote:
It's unfortunate that HFS doesn't have any integrity checking tools on the IIgs. About the only way to get a "clean" disk is to copy it to a new one, ignoring the bad stuff... Perhaps someone has some better ideas. It is quite dangerous to write to an HFS volume when some memory is flaky--very bad things can happen that won't show up until much later. It might be best to start your volume-building operation over from the beginning, with the good memory card. -michael
New information, and a new approach.I turned DMA off and continued writing to one of my 1.2 gig drives. Things went well for a while, but then I ran into a brick wall. I could read from the Zip drive, but when it tried to write to the target drive, it would start to write and then the GS would freeze with some kind of a colored screen (sometimes monocolored; sometimes mottled).
Tried it a number of times.Tried a back-up ROM 03, without the Sonic Blaster or the ZipGS. Same results.
My current thesis is that the RamFast cannot write reliably to a drive larger than 1.0 gig. Tomorrow I'll attach a smaller (260 meg) drive to this same system and see if I can write, reliably, to that.
More to follow! (Evil giggle) Rich