poirot@inria.inria.fr.UUCP (04/03/87)
One can consider me as another victim of the 40 folders war!!
However, i use a rev. 8 AHDI program. The problem has appeared when, after
a session of 7 or 8 hours, i began to uuencode a program to archive it later
on my mainframe.
Note: I format the HD using non standard partition sizes. (ie: 7 + 7 + 3 + 3)
When the problem appeared, i had about 80 folders on the disk.
the symptoms are:
- E partition (games) is unreadable (silly caracters as file or folder name ,
size of space used extravagant ).
- SHOW INFO completly fool. inside box format desorganized.
- RETURNING to the desk after executing program (i try several ones), make
the buttons of the mouse inoperable.
So, i spent near one day making backup and now i am ready to reformat it.
Is there anything to do to advance capturing the problem ?. Any aid will be
welcome. Maybe a little utility which will dump certain sectors of the
hard disk?
I'll going to reformat it next monday or tuesday. So i would like to know
if someone has experiment GEMBOOT ? Can it be useful for me and may i
include it in the future ??
Thanx in advance.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed above do not necesseraly reflect those
of my Employer. I have no affiliations with any named company .
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Didier POIROT D. Poirot
mail: ...!seismo!mcvax!inria!poirot INRIA
Domaine de Voluceau
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78153 LE CHESNAY CEDEX
FRANCE
===========================================================================apratt@atari.UUCP (04/06/87)
in article <8704031501.AA13923@inria.inria.fr>, poirot@inria.inria.fr (Didier Poirot -- SPIT) says: > > One can consider me as another victim of the 40 folders war!! > > However, i use a rev. 8 AHDI program. The problem has appeared when, after > a session of 7 or 8 hours, i began to uuencode a program to archive it later > on my mainframe. > > Note: I format the HD using non standard partition sizes. > (ie: 7 + 7 + 3 + 3) I would like to take this opportunity to remind everybody that RUNNING WITH HDX VERSION 8 IS NOT ENOUGH. You have to FORMAT and PARTITION your disk with HDX version 8 to get the benefits. The bug was in the partitioning; specifically, nonstandard partition sizes. If you partitioned your disk with pre-version 8 HDX, ask yourself this question: did I use one of the menu selections, or did I choose the sizes with the up & down arrows? If you used a menu selection, you are okay. If you used the up & down arrows, you should back up your hard disk, reformat it, and repartition it with HDX version 8. If you can't remember, you have to decide whether to take the risk. The problem will occur when a partition is nearly full: the symptom is that the next partition's files all get lost, and the root directory is shot. /----------------------------------------------\ | Opinions expressed above do not necessarily | -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. | reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. | ...lll-lcc!atari!apratt \----------------------------------------------/
rbk@akguc.UUCP (R. Brad Kummer) (04/20/87)
<><>><><><><><><><><><> > I would like to take this opportunity to remind everybody that RUNNING > WITH HDX VERSION 8 IS NOT ENOUGH. You have to FORMAT and PARTITION > your disk with HDX version 8 to get the benefits. ... How can I tell which version of HDX I am running? Ther version I have was downloaded from the Atari BBS about last October; when I select the "About HDX..." menu item, the notice includes a date of "29-Sep-1986". Is this the famous "Version 8"??? Thanks, R. Brad Kummer {ihnp4, seismo!akgua}!akguc!rbk AT&T Bell Labs Atlanta, GA