root (root@ufo.westsound.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 04:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
reply to: amicus@orcalink.com
Grant,
Hi! I took the time to reformat my Sparq cart in DOS and copied
the wp8tar.gz file (all 35 megs) to the newly formatted Sparq cartridge.
The cart showed now errors when tested and the wp8tar.gz file 'comp'ared
perfectly with the source it was copied from to the cart. I took the
added precaution of doing a 'crc' in dos and the values returned for the
copy on the cart and the original were the same.
I conclude from this that it is unlikely there is a hardware problem, per
se, or an electronics or cable problem, per se.
I then returned to my linux 2.0.34 environment and reformatted the cart
to a native linux partition & format. I had already installed the
paride-patch when I previously recompiled the 2.0.34 kernel. Everything
went fine until I once again attempted to copy the wp8tar.gz file to
the Sparq. Again I got the errors I've complained about.
However, this time I had the presence of mind to try the cmp -l option.
It returned the following results:
ufo:/mnt/sparqp# cmp -l wp8tar.gz /mnt/hdb6/wp8/wp8tar.gz
31366392 377 357
33718676 377 357
37307318 377 357
ufo:/mnt/sparqp#
ufo:/mnt/sparqp# cp /mnt/hdb6/wp8/* ./wp8tar.gaz
ufo:/mnt/sparqp# cp /mnt/hdb6/wp8/* ./wp8tar.gbz
ufo:/mnt/sparqp# ls -l
total 112191
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 10 04:10 lost+found/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38139774 Sep 10 04:26 wp8tar.gaz*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38139774 Sep 10 04:28 wp8tar.gbz*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38139774 Sep 10 04:14 wp8tar.gz*
ufo:/mnt/sparqp#
ufo:/mnt/sparqp# cmp -l /mnt/hdb6/wp8/wp8tar.gz wp8tar.gaz
337302 357 377
2318506 357 377
2339544 357 377
11022068 357 377
11030926 157 177
12885464 357 377
16380622 357 377
23607494 357 377
24808300 157 177
27352898 157 177
29128690 157 177
33493512 157 177
37181436 357 377
ufo:/mnt/sparqp# cmp -l /mnt/hdb6/wp8/wp8tar.gz wp8tar.gbz
3357502 357 377
4162776 357 377
13195196 357 377
20070340 157 177
23812444 157 177
27895260 357 377
34788866 157 177
35131856 357 377
I'm thinking the first field represents the byte offset, but I'm not
certain what the next two fields represent, although I notice a lot of
7's. Any clues in there?
Another idea I have is to set up a temporary account for you on my linux
box so you can take a look-see for yourself in order to hopefully notice
anything that looks awry. Are you ever on the IRC? I could meet you
there or possibly call you by phone. Where are you located anyway?
Thanks.
More later.
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