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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Woes: HELP!
Keywords: hard drives, problems, desperation...
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Date: 21 Nov 89 09:33:30 GMT
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In article <17336@rpp386.cactus.org> mark@rpp386.UUCP (Mark Lehmann) writes:

>My suggestion is to backup as much as you can onto floppy disks, and then
>reformt the drive.  Then make sure to get the FOLDRxxx.PRG program from
>a BBS or other source.  Atari wrote it and it is available for no-charge.
>Replace the "xxx" with a number between 100 and 999.  I use a value of 150.

If you're using TOS 1.2 or TOS 1.0, replace XXX with a number bigger
than the number of folders you have in all partitions in your drives,
plus the number of drives, plus a few for good measure. I use 250 or
so. It is *critical* to get XXX that large with this version of the
ROMS, or you can trigger the problem.

disclaimer: that's what they tell me, I'm just a dumb hydro-jock.







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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                  Astrophysicists for Choice.