This isn't the first time, and frankly it renders xcopy useless; not
only because it fails inexcusably but furthermore it aborts without
completion.

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G:\terrapin\Duckwrth\Photos\10522\1052228P.JPG
SYS1187: XCOPY cannot access the target file.


2542 file(s) copied.

....
The Operating System/2 Version is 4.50
10/29/01  11:02p       52576  A----  N:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE

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command was
xcopy g:\terrapin k:\terrapin\ /h/o/t/s/e/r/v

K happens in this case to be DVD formatted and chkdsk'd with current
UDF

there is one writing device for cd/dvd; and another cd-readonly device,
as shown:
the Lite-On DVD/RW is NOT listed as a "Supported Drive Model" in
udf215.txt

and I have to conclude for now that *that* is *the* problem.

>cdrecord -scanbus
        0,1,0     1) 'LITE-ON ' 'DVDRW SOHW-1633S' 'BS0H' Removable
CD-ROM
        0,2,0     2) 'SONY    ' 'CD-ROM CDU5211  ' 'YYS7' Removable
CD-ROM


>cdrecord dev=3D0,1,0 -inq
Cdrecord 2.0 (i386-pc-os2_emx) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J=F6rg Schilling
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'LITE-ON '
Identifikation : 'DVDRW SOHW-1633S'
Revision       : 'BS0H'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.


chkdsk after the failure:

The current hard disk drive is: G:
The type of file system for the disk is HPFS.
The HPFS file system program has been started.
CHKDSK is searching for lost data.
CHKDSK has searched 100% of the disk.
   4200966 kilobytes total disk space.
      2100 kilobytes are in 692 directories.
   3930138 kilobytes are in 11361 user files.
      4295 kilobytes are in extended attributes.
      2048 kilobytes are reserved for system use.
    262384 kilobytes are available for use.

The current hard disk drive is: K:
The type of file system for the disk is UDF.
The UDF file system program has been started.
Initializing...
Checking Sparing Table(s)...

Checking Blocks and Sizes...
Checking Pathnames...
Checking Connectivity...
Checking Reference Counts and Unique IDs...
Checking Free List...
Blocks Referenced/Unallocated: 8791

Salvage - Yes or No > Y

Repairing Free List...
Checking Logical Volume Integrity...
The volume's Free and/or Total space values are incorrect.
The volume's file count is incorrect.
The volume's directory count is incorrect.
The volume was not closed properly
Next Unique ID is incorrect
Total Directory Count is incorrect

Update Volume Integrity - Yes or No > Y


 Directories:        175
       Files:       2470
Total blocks:    2293328
Free  blocks:    2137133




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