[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] Many partitions

kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates) (10/19/90)

I have been once again trying to format a hard drive.  This time I am
trying to make many partitions of size <40M.  The problem is that the
fourth partition always causes a guru when formatting.  No matter
whether it is on the last cylinder, halfway through or whereever it is
always the fourth partition.  All mountlist entries are identical
except for the high and low cylinder numbers.  The system is an A2000,
A2090a controller and Fujitsu 2249SA hard drive (328Mb) with 1.3 Roms.

Hard drive problems aside, why in the world would the format command
guru?  Isn't there any concept of graceful death?

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 Kevin Picott   aka   Socrates