Re: Weird problems again with freeMiNT beta2.7/8

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Martin Nightowl Byttebier wrote:

> What a weekend and it is only just started. First I managed to make a 100 
> mb zip unreadable. Somehow the FAT was overwritting. I was switching forth 
> and back between two zip's. All the sudden a zip displayed instead of 158 

You *do* use Thing to eject the Zips, right? Don't just press the
eject-button, this might eject the disk before the cache is flushed. I
haven't had any problems with my Zip with 2.8.

> entries only one dir with a Chinese name. I tried to repaired the disk 
> with Edge but I ended up with a totaly corrupted disk. 100 mb of prgs I 
> gathered from the web all over the years gone. :-(

Don't use Edge on anything but standard TOS-partitions! It doesn't
understand VFAT and will corrupt the disk.

> I just found out that it was impossible to copy more then 135 files to a 
> zip. If I tried to copy more I got this message when Thing was trying to 
> copy file 136 to the zip:
> 
> 	Error while writing file M:\bla.bla
> 	(TOS 0)
> 	
> Examing the zip with Edge I noticed that the max. root entries was set to 
> 256. 
> Why can't I copy more then 135 files to that zip then? I don't get this.

Because VFAT use several entries per file. Both the 8.3-name and the
longname use one entry each, so all files with long filenames will
occupy two (or more? Frank?) FAT-entries.

> Now if I unable VFAT of the zip I can copy, using Thing's copy option, 
> more then 135 files (with 256 root entries). I just did that with 203 
> files. No prob.

See above.

> I also noticed that when copying to the zip with VFAT enabled Thing's copy 
> function halted from time to time.

How long did it halt? How large is Thing's copy-cache? And your
write-back cache? 

> 	_VFAT enabled:_ Kobold starts copying but halted when it comes to 
> 	copy file 136. I get this warning:
> 	
> 	      M:\3061.txt kann nicht angelegt werden! 

No more FAT-entries. See above.


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