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[Thomas]

Change MaxTransfer to oxfe00 in the ZIP mountlist.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Workbench and the AmigaDOS Copy command and probably also DOpus4 use very small buffers and therefore do small reads on the drive.

DOpus5 is optimised for speed and uses large buffers so the read sizes can exceed the possible maximum transfer chunks on big files. Reducing MaxTransfer below this size will prevent the filesystem from reading more than possible in one go.

The possible MaxTransfer value depends on the controller and the drive. 64kb is small enough for all possible drives and controllers.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Maybe. Just try to change the MaxTransfer value in the CD0 mountlist either. If it helps, you now know the reason.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Now I have another question : my mountlist contains only a description for virtual floppy drives directed by fms and everything else is provided by drivers in devs or storage.
AFAIK to mount something, you need the driver and the handler so what the mountlist usefull for ?

Don't get confused. I used mountlist as a synonym for dosdriver. Actually a dosdriver and a mountlist contains the same: a description of a DOS device. While a dosdriver contains only one device whose name is given by the file name, the mountlist can contain multiple device entries with the name given in the list. The mount command first searches the devs/dosdrivers directory for a file with the given name and then searches the mountlist for an entry with the name.
Dosdrivers are easier to handle. You can activate and move them from the Workbench and you can use Workbench's info menu to change attributes. The mountlist is compatible to OS 1.3 and below.

Bye,
Thomas