Re: AE PCT Hard Drive Corrupted

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

"Bryan Parkoff" <spam> wrote in message
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>     I set Drive C to /HardDrive3/AEPC.
>     I set Drive C's continous to /HardDrive4/AEPC
>     I set Drive D to /HardDrive5/AEPC.
>     I set Drive D's continous to /HardDrive6/AEPC.
>
>     The reason is that Drive C is divided into two ProDOS partitions because
> ProDOS can't exceed 16M on Filename while it limits the space maximum 32M.
> When FAT16 reaches the limit of 16MB on /HardDrive3/AEPC, it attempts to
> write additional 16MB on /HardDrive4/AEPC, the error message shows, "Not
> Enough Space".  I have to terminate the program and exit back to MS-DOS
> prompt (6.22).  It is what it corrupted data on both /HardDrive3/AEPC and
> /HardDrive4/AEPC.  I have no way to recover data, otherwise I must reformat
> both ProDOS partitions in order to create FAT16 images.
>     It is not according to AE PCT's hardware nor hard drive's bug.  It may
> be AE PCT's BIOS or TRANFSER.EXE software bug.  Please give me your advice
> for other options to prevent from corrupting data on both ProDOS partitions
> with FAT16 images.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bryan Parkoff

Many years ago I had a similar problem although on mine the second part of
Drive C was less than 16 Mbytes.  It happened when the data began writing to
the second file.  I too lost all my data. I never did find out how the PC data
was stored on the ProDOS file.  It was very frustrating because the data is
actually there but I was unable to access it.  Rather than take a chance that
it would happen again I reformatted the first AEPC hard drive file and
eliminated the second one.  I have had no problem since.  Of course I have to
limit myself to 16 Mbyte per hard drive (in fact I think I made it a little
smaller than 16 Mbytes on the chance that the bug was in ProDOS) which isn't so
bad since about the only thing I use the PC Transporter for anymore is to
transfer files between my IIgs and my PC.
The only other thing I could suggest is that maybe some PC disk utility like
Norton's Disk Doctor may be able to fix the AEPC hard drive image.

Charlie