Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hardframe/Quantum problems Summary: Have you tried changine MAXTRANSFERf Message-ID: <508@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 13 Aug 89 09:55:41 GMT References: <57456@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA Lines: 26 In article <57456@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> tj@cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R. Johnson) writes: > I recently installed a Hardframe and Quantum 80S in my 2000 >and am experiencing strange problems. Everything seems to work fine >except hack lite and ghostscript. Whenever I try to load these >programs I get a ``volume has a read/write error'' message. > To make matters worse, if >I copy hack or gs to another partition or to a different file on the >same partition, the read/write error still occurs with the copy. How many bytes long is hack lite? How many bytes long is ghostscript? How many bytes is MAXTRANSFER set to in your mountlist? Does the problem go away if MAXTRANSFER is set to a small value, such as 1024 bytes? All your symptoms match the symptoms one would expect from a read error caused by a faulty disk driver trying to transfer more data than it can handle. That's why Commodore invented the MAXTRANSFER kludge. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"