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  From: Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>
  To  : Paul Clarke <paulc@senet.com.au>
  Date: 31 Dec 2000 08:19:07 +1030

Re: Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

> Q. what sort of zip drive is it?
> 
> I have a parallel port zip drive and I had similar problems reading
> files from 
> zip disks. Until I s-l-o-w-e-d down the parallel transfer rate. Note
> writes did 
> not report any errors BUT when I looked at the zip disk under windblows
> the files
> where corrupt.

It is an internal, IDE one, found at /dev/hdd.  So I wouldn't have
thought this would be a problem.

> Of course you tested the zip drive by writting a large file eg 5M and
> reading it
> back (making sure the disk was accessed) before doing a backup, so this
> is unlikely
> in your case : )

Yes, that's it.  Unfortunately no, I didn't do such a check.  I trusted
that zip disks and related kernel drivers were reliable.  It looks like
I shouldn't have.

Cheers,

Mark.

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