Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!nlsca!frans From: frans@nlsca.UUCP (Frans Meijer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Losing folders... Message-ID: <887@nlsca.UUCP> Date: 31 Jan 91 16:13:40 GMT References: <8440512@nuthaus.UUCP> Organization: Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam Lines: 30 In <8440512@nuthaus.UUCP> nut@nuthaus.UUCP (Adam G. Tilghman) writes: > Periodically my ST finds itself unable to chdir from the >root directory of my HD partitions... This has a dire >effect on my programs, to say the least. >......... >Has this problem been sighted before? Maybe. We have about 5 or 6 different machines here and we all have lost some subdirs here and there. Especially STe's seem to have the problem. When we dove into it it turned out that in the directory, from a certain entry onwards, everything had moved up one byte! So the Nth file was missing the first char of its name and evreything after it had moved one byte. So indices into the FAT, time/date stamps, length etc was /completely/ f*ked up. We had this about five or six times now, (in one year) but nobody believes us. It looks like a severe timing problem. ** Atari guys, are you listening? ** Remember the ~10% of the Ste's last year that hed a timing problem with the DMA? It was fixed by adding a capacitor somewhere... Well on those machines it was reproducable. I made a little something that kept making and deleting subdirs and after an hour or so it went bang. Any body else? -- Frans Meijer, Sweelinck Conservatory | "Military intelligence is Amsterdam | a contradiction in terms." | - Groucho Marx