zeller@bernina.ethz.ch (Lukas Zeller) (02/27/91)
Recently, I've got AppleShare (2.0.1) and installed it on a small
LocalTalk network (2 Mac IIcx, 1 MacIIci and one SE/30 for the server).
It works fine *except* that it reports a "disk error" (when copying in the
finder) or just transfers garbge (depends on the application, wether it
recognizes the error condition or not) about once per megabyte, and only
when *reading* from the server. It happens more likely during massive data
transfers such as copying a very big file or a folder with many files in
it. We have a 9MB database file which fails to be copied from the server to
a client with a probability of 99% (it worked *once*...).
Of course, I tried numerous things to find out why it does not work:
- All inits (except AppleShare) removed
- Newest systems installed on all workstations (both 6.0.5 and 6.0.7 tried)
- EtherTalk (Phase 1 & 2 as well as V2.0 and 2.1 tested) installed (so it
*CAN'T BE* a LocalTalk (harwdare) problem!)
- Switched off MultiFinder (to exclude possible memory problems)
- Server installed on another Mac (IIcx) with a different harddisk drive.
But nothing had any effect (neither made it worse nor better).
What I could not do (yet), but intend to do (because no better ideas come to
my mind any more) is
- Formatting the server's harddisk with a different utility than OnTrack
(for the highly inprobable case of a interference between AppleShare and
the OnTrack SCSI driver)
- Getting a new copy of AppleShare for the (also highly inprobable) case
of a undetectable disk fault in my current copy.
Besides that, I'm at the end of my repertoire (sigh!). Is there anybody out
there on the net who has/had similar problems and - even more helpful -
solutions to it? Any hint would be greatly apprechiated!
Oh, btw: I asked our dealer, our Apple distributor and several people
working with AppleShare before wasting bandwith here, but now you are
my only hope (only as far as this *@!X& LAN is concerned :-) :-)
Thanks a lot in advance!
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