SIO2SD Blues...

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I am having a lot of trouble with my SIO2SD unit. This one is v2.5 firmware. I am using SDX 4.49 and 4.49E for these tests, depending on which CPU I am using. This happens on 4 different 800XLs and 1 600XL. The CPUs are

 

• stock 800xl

• u1mb 800xl (configured for Side 3) (pbi off and stock mem)

• u1mb 800xl (configured for Side 2) (pbi off and stock mem)

• Rambo 800XL 256k

• 600XL with Lotharek 64k mem upg

 

Basically I am copying files with it to test it. I use this SDX command:

 

COPY /R A: H:

 

H: is freshly formatted before each test and both A: and H: are 16mb ATRs.

 

The copy process starts off normally enough and then a few minutes into it, maybe it hesitates on a read and then resumes. When it first begins, it writes to sequential sectors as you would expect on a newly formatted disk. It does this for a while and then at some point, it goes crazy. It starts writing 1 sector every 5-10 seconds and these appear to be written randomly all over the dest disk.

 

Eventually it aborts with error 135 – file is read only.

 

Anyone ever seen anything like this?

 

 

[_The Doctor__]

Please try 4.49G as well

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2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:

Please try 4.49G as well

Doc...

You are da MAN!!!

 

That fixed everything.  The first test took about an hour and CLX 1.7b reports no errors.  I am running the 2nd test now on the SDrive Max instead of the SIO2SD.  

 

I am also flashing all my stuff.  Already done the 2 U1MBs and the Sparta X Supercart.  I'll get to the SIDEs later (I don't use SDX in those very much).  Also got to do the IDE2Pluses.  They'll be next.