OLD NEC 2400 ICS wont back up when using BKUPI

[downhillin1]

Have a MAT PC that is using windows 98. Everything works fine except the back up to floppy. I havbe tried new disks and that did not fix it. The system has been rebooted several times in the the last three years so I dont think that would solve the problem.

Everytime I do a BKUPI it gives me an A30F error. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. There has not been a successful back up in three years.

 

[belevedere]

On that system set up we usually reboot the MAT in DOS mode to do a back up. WIN 98 sometimes gets in the way of the back up.

 

[downhillin1]

Once the PC has been booted in DOS what command are you running to start the Back up?

Whats the process for this?

 

[belevedere]

that depends on how it was loaded. Usually it's something like
cd\2400ics>init
It could be CD\MAT>init

 

[OzzieGeorge]

Shouldn't this one be done with DMBU Or is that older still? How old is the software?

 

[Billz66]

has backup ever worked on this pc
may be a ahrd drive partition type problem.
I seem to remember the ICS 140 range was problematic with partition size and format
Fat 16 less than 1G primary partition rings a bell

 

[downhillin1]

Backup worked at one time but the PC died and needed to be reloaded. I will try the dos solution and see what happens from there.

This is more than I was able to get anywhere else...thanks guys.

Will let you know what happens tomorrow.

 

[downhillin1]

Well....That did'nt work. Gives me an Error in dos "ERROR OE AT IP 1541H". Cant seem to find anything on that error. Drives me nuts!

anyone ever seen this?

 

[Billz66]

yep what operating system , what partition size and what format did you use

My sugegstion remains at 1G primary partition formatted as fat16
run software form dos if possible