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From: bscott@isis.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Don't fill your HD (was: format is brain dead)
Summary: Por que no?
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.044717.9661@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 04:47:17 GMT
References: <1990Nov25.093445.10710@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1990Nov27.223354.25258@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: bscott@isis.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Organization: The Raster Image
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In article <1990Nov27.223354.25258@ecst.csuchico.edu> mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) writes:
>In article <1990Nov25.093445.10710@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) writes:
>>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').

I've heard about this "problem" from time to time but have never had it 
happen to me.  At least, I don't think so.  I have a stock (populated) 
A-590 and due to the despicable reality of having to live in 21 megs (only
for a few more weeks now, though!!) it is generally almost totally full.  
In fact quite often I spend days with less than 50K free.  I've done this
since a month or two after I got it and I got it almost a year ago.  I've
never had any problems (not absolutely tracable to a different cause) until
recently and they, while mysterious of origin, occured when I actually had
more free space than I've had for some time.  

Of course, it may be that this is the great, fantastic, beautiful and capable
A-590 at work, but I've heard that it's actually a problem in the FFS (which
I use).  So, who knows?

BTW, additional notes while I'm here - any important replies (hah!) should go
in Email as we're only getting a fraction of news right now due to a blockage
somewhere in uunet.  

Second, if Blaine Gardner is reading this, I can NOT reach you no way, no 
how, and I tried at least 8 DIFFERENT routings.  Your mail seems to reach
me fine but I cannot reply.  I still want to sell you those keyboards.  Please
send me an alternate location to reach you or something.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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