On 02/13/2014 03:30 AM, Bert Thomas wrote:
I suppose it
could also be other things such as a buggy BIOS, or a drive
with issues...
Maybe. I don't understand why you have the problem anyway.
Well, I do now, and am feeling a bit sheepish :)
With every test I'd done, I'd sanity-checked the data that I was creating
on another machine with a HD drive - like an idiot, I'd figured that I
wasn't modifying the data, so the HD's drive's narrower write head
(compared to the DD drive in the 'source' XT) wasn't going to be a problem.
Somehow (I blame ~20 years of brain rot) I'd completely forgotten that DOS
maintains a "last access" timestamp for files, and so every time I copied
data from the HD drive it would update the FAT on the floppy, which was
then causing a variety of errors when subsequently trying to delete the
file via the DD drive. Urgh. :/
Anyway, problem solved (I *really* need to find another DD drive; my only
other one that I have here seems to have some major alignment problems)
Thanks for the help,
Jules