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From: fischer-michael@YALE.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard disk crash!
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Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 17:30:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 14 17:30:49 1987
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>  From:           Kevin Schneider
>  
>  I have an ATARI SH-204 with a very big problem.  I think that I exceeded
>  the 40 folder limit since garbage suddenly appeared in the directory
>  windows.  So I wrote off some of the stuff that wasn't backed up and
>  attempted to reformat.  It just wouldn't do it (well it did a so called
>  format that took 1 second and didn't change anything).  Can anyone help?
>  ...
>   (3)  Using HDX under the partion edit it shows 87.2Mb in partion 1 and
>        40.7Mb in partition 4 with the others unused and 0 Mb unused.

The early hard disks were shipped with a buggy HDX.  The "canned"
partitions worked fine, but the partition editor would create
overlapping partitions that would eventually lead to the sort of
bizarre behavior you describe.  Atari announced that the bug was
corrected some months ago and that the updated HDX would be shipped
with the new disks and would be available through dealers.  I am
still waiting for my dealer to get it, as I am also waiting for
the ability to boot directly from the hard disk, another feature
that was announced by Atari several months ago but never to my
knowledge made available to users.  In the meantime, I have been
using the 10-5-5 canned partition and have had no further trouble.
Maybe you have the bad HDX, too, in which case I suggest you
repartition and reformat your disk (if you can) using a canned
partition.

--Mike Fischer 
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