Re: System Error $0040 when copying large amount of files

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

Hello,

    It may be firmware bug.  How many files did you copy?  It may be over 
limit number of files which it is like to exceed $FFFF and wrap back to 
$0000 that it causes to overwrite RAM.  It is how you got System Error 
$0040.  Invalid pathname is like what RAM already overwrote the existing 
pathname before existing pathname became invalid like garbage characters.
    Try to limit the numbers of files you are copying.

Bryan Parkoff

"SloppyMagoo" <joeseeley@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello Everybody,
>
> I recently purchased a v1.2 CFFA card (love it!) and am now in the
> process of copying my files from my old 100MB SCSI drive to it.
>
> I initially thought I would simply drag and drop all of the folders
> from one of my old partitions to one of my new CFFA drives.
>
> But when I try to do this, I invariably get the following error:
>
> System Error ($0040) Invalid pathname syntax.
>
> However, if I patiently drag and drop a couple folders at a time
> (depending upon their size) everything will copy okay. Needless to say,
> I don't have any invalid filenames that I am aware of.
>
> Sometimes instead of getting System Error $0040 the system will lock up
> and the cursor will have a sort of rainbow palette.
>
> I originally thought this might be due to flakiness in my old drive
> (it's definitely going) or perhaps the SCSI card or cable. But I tried
> copying a large amount of files from one CFFA drive to another and got
> the same error.
>
> I also tried copying a large amount of files using Copy II 9 but again
> got the same error.
>
> So this made me think perhaps RAM is flaky since it's erroring out on
> reading the files (it never gets to a write). But I ran AE's RAM test
> on my GS RAM Plus and everything comes out copacetic.
>
> I have installed Dave Lyon's CFFA driver and can see all my partitions.
> My system has been stable in the recent past and gets regular daily
> use.
>
> Anybody else run into this problem? I do have a work-around as
> described above but it is tedious and it does bug me that a routine
> task like this isn't working properly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>