CompuServe Messages

John, Yes…by using AREAD or AWRITE to/from a Shared Hard Drive (JLinked, MakeAB, or JANUS device)…you're trying to pass the data thru the Amiga- MS-DOS interface (JANUS) both directions at once. That is a tough job for MS-DOS to handle…thus the i/o errors. Look at it this way…read from the MS-DOS side and pass it to the Amiga side … Amiga side sees it goes to JH0: and immediately passes it back to the MS-DOS side…thus MS-DOS is trying to do read/writes at the same time and gets confused. If you can use an intermediate device, such as first writting it to an Amiga side floppy and when that's done, passing it back to JH0: via COPY…the problems will go away. Of cousre, if you try to pass it back (the copy to JH0:) while you're trying to do something else on the MS-DOS side…the problems will reappear…and probably more severely. Don