#PAR Backup
Christophe:
I ran some test with my PAR setup and was not able to produce the corrupt file
with bad frames after about frame 900, as you have mentioned. I tried the
following:
1) Copy 1360 frame file from PAR to DOS and back to PAR using both DOS and
PAR.EXE.
2) Copy 2700 frame file from PAR to DOS and back using PAR.EXE.
In each case the files play without error and appear to be correct, although
the one time I did a compare (using DOS FC after copying from PAR to DOS) the
file had numerous mis- compares.
This may be a stupid question, but are you using the same DOS/NTSC version of
the PAR board that I am? Mine is model DR-2100. Other system information:
Gateway 2000 P5-60 Pentium computer (PCI/ISA bus) MS-DOS 6.22 SCSI hard drive
Future Domain TMC-1680 SCSI controller, v3.5 BIOS PAR drive – Micropolis 2217A
PAR.HEX version 1.10 PARDRV version 1.4 (386) PAR.EXE version 1.09
I know that my drivers aren't the latest, but they have worked reliably, albeit
with a long list of bugs (which DPS would undoubtedly consider to be
version-specific-features).
Let me know what you are using and I'll try to duplicate your problem on my
system. By the way, what tape backup system are you using?
Cal