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Re: Yeah! Parallel ZIP drive & E/D work with Beta0



>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Clark <Jeremy_Clark@msn.com> writes:
In article <4kh8km$1fd@news01.deltanet.com> Jeremy_Clark@msn.com (Jeremy Clark) writes:


    Jeremy> Many thanks to ARDI!

    Jeremy> After installing beta0 I was able to access my
    Jeremy> Mac-formatted ZIP disk for the first time.  However, there
    Jeremy> were a few glitches, perhaps because of the restrictions
    Jeremy> of the beta:

What drivers under what operating system are you using?  I'm extremely
interested because yesterday we bought a parallel zip drive for
testing purposes and we've had less success than you have.

    Jeremy> 1.  When copying from the ZIP disk to an executor disk,
    Jeremy> results in an I/O error.

This could be a result of a timeout.  Please do this:

	mkdir \tmp
	executor -debug fast -logerr
	
This will create a file \tmp\err.out which I'd like you to then e-mail
to bugs@ardi.com.  Remind me what processor and what speed it's
running at when you send me the e-mail.

    Jeremy> 2.  When copying from an executor disk to the ZIP disk,
    Jeremy> results in a "volume is locked" error.

    Jeremy> 3.  When attempting to run an application installed on the
    Jeremy> ZIP disk, ZIP drive light blinks very fast and continues
    Jeremy> to do so forever.  Nothing ever happens.

I'll worry about #2 and #3 after I know more about #1.  Again, now
that we have a device in house I think we'll get it working fairly
soon, although I was up all night looking into the problem (we got our
drive around 4pm) and haven't solved it yet -- maybe Mat will have
better ideas when he comes in later today.

    Jeremy> One other thing I noticed with beta0 was that the "busy"
    Jeremy> icon (watch), animates extremely fast, where you can
    Jeremy> barely see the hands moving, just a blur.  Is this due to
    Jeremy> a change in clock speed?

We're not sure what happened there.  It sounds like a bad thing to me.
We'll look into it.

    Jeremy> Jeremy Clark

    Jeremy> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeremy Clark,
    Jeremy> DaVinci Designs email: Jeremy_Clark@msn.com
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    Jeremy> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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