I've reposted this without the OT tag so apologies if you've seen it before.
I've got a weird problem with one of my customers. I've set up a batch file to PKZIP some VFP data files to floppy. The problem is that it fills the first disk no problem, then prompts for disk 2. You put disk 2 in and it keeps asking for disk 2 ... as if the machine is not registering the disk change.
The PKZIP command in the batch file is:
PKZIP -ex "-&wv" a:adata.zip a_*.*
The same command works on hundreds of sites with no problem. Things to note:
Tried on 2 Compaq Windows XP Pro workstations and a Dell server with Windows 2000 server. The "-&w" is in quotes because that's the way it has to be under NT/2000/XP - that wipes the disk, spans disks and verifies. I've tried "-&uv" which formats the disks first, no dice. Winzip won't span the disks properly. PKZIPC won't either.
The only commonality is that the floppies are all Imation but they used to work fine, and even fresh disks don't work.
Any ideas ... ?
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