MLSIRTON@WEIZMANN.BITNET (Guy Sirton) (07/26/86)
I'm interested in getting information about hard disks available for the ST. If anyone has the technical information about existing ST hard disks please E-mail me and I'll summarize to the net. Also, is it possible to connect hard disks from other micros to the ST? An IBM-PC hard disk for example? Guy
K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET (10/02/86)
I got one of the ATARI hardisks (SH204) yesterday (the price for the SH204
has gone down from SFr 2190.- ($1290) to SFr 1490.- ($880) list price in the
last month (I payed SFr 1290.- ($760)).I spent most of the night
playing around with it and naturally :-) have some questions:
- How do you invoke the 40 subdirectory "feature" realiably?
Do you actually have to open 40 subdirectorys? I had a total
of 80 subdirectorys (not at one time) on the desktop last
night and didn't notice any ill effects. This morning I did
experience the bug after copying a lot of stuff from the
harddisk to floppy (I didn't have any files in partition D:
anymore), but I didn't count how many subdirectorys I had
actually handled.
- The german handbook doesn't have a warning about having more
than 40 subdirectorys in it (I have seen a US handbook and
the rest of the german hanbook seems to be a one to one
translation). Does this mean that the bug was fixed for
german TOS or is the upper limit just higher? (I wonder
what the legal implications of this is, if I trash my harddisk
due to the bug?)
- Has anyone seen or used a backup program (PD or commercial)?
- Does anybody have a program like TREE (MS-DOS)?
BTW I would like chkdsk too, if its not too much trouble.
Simon Poole
K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNETolson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson) (10/03/86)
In article <8610021125.AA29449@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET writes: >I got one of the ATARI hardisks (SH204) yesterday... > > - How do you invoke the 40 subdirectory "feature" realiably? > > Simon Poole > K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET According to Neil@Atari, you have to access 40 subdirectories in between boots. -Eric
dclemans@mntgfx.UUCP (Dave Clemans) (10/07/86)
There are a few public domain backup programs floating around (I've seen them in the Compuserve Atari16 group). On the commercial side, Michtron should be shipping one imminently... dgc