Subj : Binkley32 on Win2000 Server
To   : Ger Vloothuis
From : Bob Jones
Date : Fri Mar 22 2002 02:36 pm

 GV> I am running Binkley32 on a Win2000 Server.  It doesn't 
 GV> want to write incoming packets to the disk.  It baulks 
 GV> about disk is full.  There is plenty of space on the 
 GV> disk and all permissions for Binkley to write there are 
 GV> set OK.

 GV> Anyone came across this before?


You are probably hitting the 4Gb limit on the old DOS API for finding out free 
space on a drive.  The maximum amount of space that can be returned via the old 
call is 4Gb.  Amounts over 4Gb wrap.  Most software treats this as a signed 
instead of an unsigned int, so  if free space is between 2Gb and 4Gb (or 6Gb to 
8Gb, or 10Gb to 12Gb, etc.), then when treated as a "signed" int, the value is 
negative, and the software thinks you are  out of disk space.

So.... You have a few choices.....  

One option is to  eat up free disk space  so that the returned value is under 
2Gb free (but at least enough room for the files being  received) on that 
partion.

Another option is to place your inbound areas on a disk partition not over 2Gb 
in size.

If running "DOS" software in a VDM under OS/2, we have an option to install a 
driver that truncates the reported value to a maximum of 2Gb free space.  I 
don't know if this is available under Win 2K.  It might come if you access  the 
partition as a network mount instead of the direct access via the drive 
letter....  I don't know.....

But, what you are hitting is what happens when you have a partition over 2Gb in 
size with over 2Gb of free disk space.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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