I recall a 'media change' signal line from a floppy but it's a long
time ago.
A google search reveals plenty of older talk on the subject.
Bryan
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From: profoxtech-bounces .at. leafe .DOT com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com]
On Behalf Of Alan Bourke
Sent: Friday, 13 June 2003 5:41 PM
To: profoxtech .at. leafe .DOT com
Subject: Zipping VFP data.
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 ... ?
Alan Bourke
Opera Support And Development
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