> 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 > > >
Well, Susan . . . That?s a stumper! Still, With the error occuring when writing files to the cache (at the very beginning of the burn process), vDog is thinking there might not be enough room on your hard disk to write the temporary cache. Your idea of allocating more RAM to Toast may help too. Also, check your Toast Preferences and LOWER the amount of RAM allocated to cache. Lastly, make sure your burn speed is less (half) of the rated speed of your CD-ROM drive. I think your beige G3 has an 24X drive, so burn no faster than 12X. And I can?t help but think that if it worked fine up until a week ago, what has changed since then. Install anything new? Make any changes? Have you run standard diagnostics lately i.e. Nortons, Disk First Aid or the like? We?ll keep trying. Ward Oldham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020506/3d24d420/attachment.html
