Hi,

I noted some strange behaviour with my ZIP drive set up as advised in
the Howto:

I copied some files from the internal hard drive to /zip and did a cksum
on them. The results are astonishing to me.

3410407528 1929082 ./tex.inputs.gz
3410407528 1929082 /zip/tex.inputs.gz
3410407528 1929082 /zip/tex.inputs.gz
3410407528 1929082 /zip/tex.inputs.gz
3410407528 1929082 /zip/tex.inputs.gz
3410407528 1929082 /zip/tex.inputs.gz

2558751241 1916248 ./tex.web2c.gz
2558751241 1916248 /zip/tex.web2c.gz
2558751241 1916248 /zip/tex.web2c.gz
2558751241 1916248 /zip/tex.web2c.gz
2558751241 1916248 /zip/tex.web2c.gz
2558751241 1916248 /zip/tex.web2c.gz

3214246697 2930820 ./tex.dvi.tar.gz             ok
436874913 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz           
4237152663 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
1110262167 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
190057347 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
2839172730 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
2550787343 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
3334394382 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
3214246697 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz          hey ho
3879395864 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
2965281952 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
4061774345 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
2673877795 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
1957468705 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
3968010638 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
987499933 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz
801421768 2930820 /zip/tex.dvi.tar.gz

Suggestions anyone? Upgrade something (URL)? no ZIPs in 1.2 with
ncrscsi? get a new ZIP disk? use only Jaz drives <g>?

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