Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUcp (Allan Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: Hard disk questions Message-ID: <503@atari.UUcp> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 14:01:14 EST Article-I.D.: atari.503 Posted: Wed Dec 31 14:01:14 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 22:37:11 EST References: <1982@ptsfa.UUCP> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 39 ptsfa!jmc writes: > I've backed up my hard disk (~45 folders) to floppies using MichTron's > Backup utility (another ~45 folders on various floppies) with no ill > affects. I believe the problem is with GEM / desktop. You are wrong. The problem is not with GEM / desktop, the problem is in a limited- resource manager in GEMDOS. I cannot stress this enough. If you can live on the edge, with all your hard-disk files in mortal danger of erasure (well, the directories & FAT, anyway), that's your business. I choose not to, and urge others to do the same. > The problem is also with Atari who refuses to tell us when they will > fix this (and other) problems except to say "we're working on it" > and "real soon now" and "the check is in the mail". We "refuse" to tell you because we do not know. We ARE working on it. I am personally working on it (all of GEMDOS). So are other people. We are also working on a lot of other things. Since this problem is not a showstopper -- you are able to use your machine -- we don't feel that fixing it alone warrants a new ROM release. In addition, this problem reaches to the very core of GEMDOS, and fixing it (and other GEMDOS irregularities) entails a complete rewrite. Adding blt (blitter) support, for example, does NOT entail a complete rewrite (just the conversion of software-blt code in the LINE-A interface to hardware-blt). Please, PLEASE stop spreading rumors to the effect that there is no limit on the number of folders you can safely have on your hard disk. There is a limit. Its parameters are nondeterministic, but we have determined that 40 is a safe number. If you lose your files and you had more than 40 folders on your disk, WE TOLD YOU SO. /----------------------------------------------\ | Opinions expressed above ARE those of Atari | -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. | Corp. and should be those of everyone else. | ...lll-lcc!atari!apratt \----------------------------------------------/