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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: dead partition
Message-ID: <1425.AA1425@caleb>
Date: 11 Aug 89 03:33:13 GMT
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Hello,
       I think that I have found your problem.

>GH1:
>    Device = hddisk.device
>    FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
>    Unit   = 3
>    Flags  = 0
>    Surfaces  = 6
>    BlocksPerTrack = 26
>    Reserved = 2
>    Interleave = 3
>    LowCyl = 3  ;  HighCyl = 405
     ^^^^^^^^^^
                make this 2 (see below.)

>    Buffers = 32
>    GlobVec = -1
>    BufMemType = 0
>    Mount = 1
>    DosType = 0x444F5301
>    StackSize = 4000
>#
>
>GH2:
>    Device = hddisk.device
>    FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
>    Unit   = 3
>    Flags  = 0
>    Surfaces  = 6
>    BlocksPerTrack = 26
>    Reserved = 2
>    Interleave = 3
>    LowCyl = 406
>    HighCyl = 811
>    Buffers = 32
>    GlobVec = -1
>    BufMemType = 0
>    Mount = 0
>    DosType = 0x444F5301
>    StackSize = 4000
>#
>
>
>RES2: Device = hddisk.device
>      Unit   = 3
>      Flags  = 0
>      Surfaces  = 6
>      BlocksPerTrack = 26
>      Reserved = 2
>      LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 2
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
                                  should be 1 (remember, count from 0.)
>      Buffers = 1
>      BufMemType = 5
>#

I'm not quite sure why this might trash your partition, but try fixing it and
see what happens.  (No guarantees, of course.  Caveat Emptor.)

                             I hope this helps,

                                        Jim Pritchett

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