Close to how? I mean, the second is "I can't do that" and the first is "I can't keep doing that any more", right? Or am I wrong about that? No, you're right to the best of my knowledge; I was thinking of 做不到 as something like "I can't do it (all the way to completion)" (there's a scene from The Rebel where it's used along the lines of "even though I've already started to do X, I can't follow through on what you're ordering me to do," giving me a similar sense).
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No, you're right to the best of my knowledge; I was thinking of 做不到 as something like "I can't do it (all the way to completion)" (there's a scene from The Rebel where it's used along the lines of "even though I've already started to do X, I can't follow through on what you're ordering me to do," giving me a similar sense).