[Oberon] Occasional data transfer between boxes ?

[shark at gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca]

Chris,

cg> ... transfering data ...

I have a similar interest.  

Last week I installed an Adaptec AHA-2940 and a 
SCSI Zip drive on the machine at work.  At home I 
installed an ATA Zip drive.

The system with SCSI is trapping on the order of 10% 
of attempted file stores.  Ie. more that 1% and less 
than 100% of store attempts fail.  Every attempt to 
shrink MailMessages has failed.  This device is not 
useable.  This is the head of one of the traps.

TRAP 17  Disk error (PC Native 05.01.2003)
OFSDiskVolumes.PutBlock  PC = 742
	adr = 13210
	blk = /, /, /, /, /, /, /, / ...
	dadr = 106767
	dev =  001A5A60H
	res = 22
	vol =  001BADA0H
OFSAosFiles.PutSector  PC = 212
   ...
   
The system with the ATA Zip has not been tested 
enough to detect such failure.  Will post an update 
in a week or two.

Edgar commented recently,
es> Bluebottle works with USB sticks.

At Thu Jul 21 22:52:15 2005 Josef commented,
js> On the other hand I could observe that sometimes 
while copying many files - about 100 MB - the copying 
stopped without any message.

Yikes!  

Sven confirmed,
ss> There are still issues concering the USB system. 
ss> I will continue to work on it.

So USB storage is fine for experimentation but 
not yet reliable enough for routine use.

So Chris, the current situation is this.  An ftp 
server can be used by both Native Oberon and DOS 
clients.  I have used NetPresenz on MacOS and Linux 
ftp servers for years.  Desktops.OpenDoc  
ftp://<user@host> is convenient.

A removable fixed disk is still the only portable 
medium which is really solid.  These things are 
inexpensive thanks to USB.  Froogle and eBay for 
"removable drive tray", "hot swap drive tray" & etc.

Oberon with a removable drive is better than Windows
with USB?  Well, Newton and Einstein did their work 
with neither.  =8~))

Regards,          ... Peter


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