by sampleandhold » Wed Jun 04, 2003 5:52 am
i could be wrong about this... but maybe you are using the wrong zip disk, like perhaps you have a 250 meg disk, and you are trying to use it on a drive that only supports 100mg? but i couldn't see you doing that. that error makes me think that emu, or your computer can't handle that size of drive. i really don't know what size you are using... but i don't understand why it wouldn't work
typically, in my opinion, the fat is pretty much a wasteful way of orginizing data... what happens is there are, clusters, or little blocks that have say 128 bites, whatever, and lets say you have a file that is 132 bites, well that means you have used two clusters of information, even though that file is only 132 it will take up 256 bites on your drive... i am just pulling numbers here, but i think you get my point. once data, no matter how small, is introduced into a cluster, that cluster is unuseable. that is just the way it is.
that error makes it sound like your computer, emu, or whatever is partitioning the zip drive. i don't really know why you would do this, unless your computer or emu, doesn't reconize that size, typically partioning is used to make one drive many. if a computer can only reconize a hhd of 100mg, and you put 500 meg, you need to partion it so it sees each set of a 100 as a seperate drive. if i remember correctly.. and the cluster size thing makes me think that what is going on is that the amount of data that is suppose to be in each cluster is too small. i think the fat can only handle so many clusters per meg, if there appears to be too many clusters per meg, then the fat can't handle it...
i tell you want. i am will look into this in my a+ book, i don't remember too much about this right now, and i have a fever so i might be off on somethings. i will see what i can come up with and post again, unless someone else beats me to it.
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