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From: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Don't fill your HD (was: format is brain dead)
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.223354.25258@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 90 22:33:54 GMT
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In article <1990Nov25.093445.10710@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) writes:
>
> He did tell me two good things:
>
>Don't EVER use media that has not been mapped.
>Don't EVER fill a CBM hd >95% full.. Why? He did not go in depth.

	WHY IS THIS???  I've been bitten by this a couple of times now.  I've
got a SeaGate ST157-N (ya, I know, SeaGate sucks) running on a Pacific
Peripherals Overdrive controller.
	When this thing gets anywhere over 97% full, I start getting "Volume
Overdrive has a Read/Write Error...." messages just from trying to READ a file
(using 'more', or 'type').

	If this didn't happen on files that were good BEFORE the drive reached
97% full, and didn't go away when the drive had more room on it, I'd say there
was a problem on the media.  But that ain't it.  AmigaDOS just doesn't like full
hard drives, and enquiring minds are little curious as to WHY?

	Could some CBM guru shed a little light on this, or at least say it's
been fixed in 2.x...?

	-- Matt

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