Dumb question. How full is your HD?...vDog On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 06:58 PM, Susan Chapman wrote:
> Hi Ward... > > Sorry for any confusion! > I meant I can use Toast to copy files from my HD but I can't copy from > a CD in my G3 to the LaCie. ?Before I could put an audio CD or anything > in my G3's CD and copy it bit by bit to the external CD. ?I have a ton > of real RAM :) ?Never was a problem before a week ago. ?I'll try upping > the RAM though that Toast has access to just to make sure. > > Thanks! > > Susan > > > > on 5/6/02 5:46 PM, Ward Oldham at woldham at telocity.com wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a question I'm hoping someone can help me with. > > I have a beige G3 Power Mac desktop with 8.6 on it. ?I've had a LaCie > external CD-RW that has worked flawlessly with it (using Toast 4.1) > for a > year. ?Now all of a sudden, when I try to do Disk Copy from my G3's CD > drive, it balks when I'm in Toast giving me a gray dialog box that says > Mac > OS error-error 100. ?This is just when it is putting it in RAM cache. > > Do I need to reinstall 8.6? ?I've reinstalled Toast. > > Thanks, > > Susan > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be May 28. > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > > > Hi Susan, > > My first thought is your problem is memory related. > > I don?t know if you said this, but I construed your statement as > running Apple?s Disk Copy at the same time you?re running Toast. ?If > you are, you may be running short on available RAM. ?The real tip-off > you gave me was the error being generated while the RAM cache within > Toast was being filled up. > > If that be the case, check your Toast preferences and lower the amount > of cache you have set. ?It could be that this is set too high for the > amount of available RAM that you have, thus aborting the operation due > to insufficient RAM. ?I can tell you from prior experience that Toast > will not give you an ?out of memory? error like you would expect. > > Good Luck! > > Ward Oldham > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2098 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020506/3e0b6c7c/attachment.bin
