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From: fortinp@bcara13.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin 1573589)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TURBODOS and AHDI v3.01 can't get on!
Summary: and now AHDI V3.02...
Message-ID: <142@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Date: 30 Oct 89 05:55:11 GMT
References: <8910280708.AA12501@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <8910280708.AA12501@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, DAGLEISH@FRILL.BITNET writes:
> 
> ..... If you use the new AHDI and TURBODOS, then when you try
> to copy files to the hard-disc then nothing happens. All the usual disc-
> activity light flashing takes place and the file count in the alert box
> decrements as normal, but at the end of the day none of the copied files
> appears on the destination disc. 
> 

I wonder if even Atari had some problems... I have an old 10 meg drive which
I formatted with AHDI V3.01 (I just use that drive for testing).  Something
interesting happens with the formatter:  while it is happily telling you
that it is checking your hard drive for bad sectors, the drive head does NOT
move from track to track.  The head actuator in my 10 megger is completely 
out in the open which is how I know this.  Actually, the head stays near track
zero for a while, then jumps about 25% of the way out for a while, then 50%
(I am guessing) and one or two more times (I don't recall).  

The point here is that there is NO WAY that the formatter can be checking 
the drive as it claims.  If it IS, then I want to know HOW it could be reading
about 3 megs into my Mega *2* to check.  Also this "verify" must be SUPER-FAST
at reading the HD since the head moves across the tracks as fast as a normal
"seek".
 
 I wonder if this is why AHDI V3.02 is now out without any docs and only the
 formatting program is changed?  I haven't tried it out yet...
 
> Paul A. Dagleish

Pierre Fortin