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From: rzv30@cccvm.ccc.amdahl.com (Rene' A. Vega)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS 2.0 and external hard drives
Message-ID: <5bEB02Zw08Nj01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 02:31:49 GMT
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Reply-To: rzv30@cccvm.ccc.amdahl.com (Rene' A. Vega)
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Be very careful when configuring your existing external hard drive with the 
Amiga 3000 HDTools program. The reason you're not allowed to specify a 
partition beginning at cylinders 0 and 1 is because the configuration program 
uses those first two cylinders to house the partition map. One of the last 
things it does is WRITE to those cylinders. Fortunately for me, both of my 
external hard drives had an expendable partition beginning on cylinder 0, and 
so  it wasn't a disaster that those first two cylinders were overwritten. 


Rene' A. Vega
Computer & Systems Architecture