rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (the Wizard of Speed and Time) (12/14/89)
My setup:
A2000 (rev 6.2 motherboard) wich Super Agnus and 1 meg MEMF_CHIP
SupraRAM2000 populated to 4 meg RAM
HardFrame/2000
SyQuest SQ555 removable platter drive
The question -
I am having problems diskcopy'ing between platters. I have, however, gotten
it to work. If I just boot off my boot platter (which among other things
has ARP, and runs FaccII and MachII 2.4) I can do the diskcopy. This is
what happens:
1) I type 'diskcopy DH0: to DH0: noverify'
2) all but 13K of my fast ram and 450K of my chip ram gets grabbed.
diskcopy pauses, then gives it all back. On the screen I get a message
to the effect of
Close tools for extra memory
Warning: will take 11 swaps
press [RETURN]
3) the diskcopy then goes fine
If I boot off a vanilla disk, or just run MachII then the following:
1) memory disappears
2) memory comes back and diskcopy hangs. No messages, ^C won't affect it,
but the machine doesn't crash.
I was thinking that is there is too much memory available and diskcopy
has to back up too much (44 meg) then it might get confused. It's not
bad memory, since I ran the SupraRAM test program on the board after this
happened and everything checked out fine.
Soo, any ideas?
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