Re: [NTLK] NCU: ...an error has occurred (-1)

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2001 - 21:53:12 PDT


on 23/06/01 17:46, Robert Benschop at robertbenschop_at_bigfoot.com wrote:

> on 23-06-2001 4:28, Rodney Rothstein at rothstein_at_cancercenter.columbia.edu
> wrote:
>
>> So for my next step I transferred 200 names to the
>> internal store from my 16Mb Simple Technologies flash card and
>> removed the flash card.
>
>> Just for the sake of completeness, I don't think
>> that the limitation was on space allocation on my Mac to the two
>> programs that get used: NCU is set for 6255K minimum and 25000K
>> preferred and COrgAE2 is set for 768K minimum and 10000K preferred.
>
> AFAIK it's best to have at least double the amount of RAM of your total
> storage in your Newt, so with your 16MB card you should allocate about 40 MB
> to NCU, so it looks like it might be a RAM problem after all.

That has always been the best rule of thumb: twice the memory to NCU than
the card you try to backup.

-Laurent.

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