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From: rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 40 folder problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.213400.28693@netcom.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 91 21:34:00 GMT
References: <051358.839@timbuk.cray.com>
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In article <051358.839@timbuk.cray.com> fields@uktriton.cray.com (Mike Fields) writes:
>I have a 4Meg STe with a 40M FA.ST Hard drive, with about 100 folders.
>Occasionally
>files get corrupted, different files get into the middle of files..It
>looks very much
>like the problems when, with my 1040, I encountered the 40 folder
>problem.
>
>I have tried with foldr150.prg but that didn't seem to change anything,
>but it could
>be because the problem has already happened and until I ZERO the
>partition it
>will continue regardless.
>
>Anybody any ideas ??

It could also be the 'flakey DMA' problem.  I had this problem when I
got my original STe and solved it by trading it in for another one.

>
>Thanks
>Mike Fields
>fields@uk.cray.com


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