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From: gert@nikhefh.uucp (Gert Poletiek)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Bug in HDX (ATARI hard disk utility)
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 03:28:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 03:28:22 1986
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In article <8609230641.AA23649@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> XBR4D76H@DDATHD21.BITNET writes:
>A few weeks ago I bought a SH204 harddisk. After formatting and partitioning
>into 2 logical drives with the HDX program I started to transfer lots of
>stuff from floppys to the harddisk.
>After some Megs' I realized that the desktop directory listing of the 2nd
>drive was scrambled. Looking into the directory with a diskeditor I found
>text (Grrrrrrrr). This text looked terribly like a file I transferred to
>the 1st drive last.
>To make things short, it was the file.
>A quick view onto the partition information block (sector 0 of hard disk)
>showed that HDX created two overlapping partitions.
>Trying different partition sizes I found that HDX was only able to create
>correct partitions if I selected one of the predefined partitioning schemes
>of the menu.
>Did someone have similar problems with HDX ?
>
>  Konrad Hahn
>  Techn. University Darmstadt
>  Dept. of Computer Science (Datentechnik)
>  Merckstr. 25, D-6100 Darmstadt, W.-Germany
>  BITNET: XBR4D76H@DDATHD21


Yep, had the same problems you mentioned. I had to reformat twice, but
I still have a nonstandard partitioning. I recommend you use the bad block
option as soon you have formatted you disk. This will find something about .2
percent of the disk to be bad. 
I'm running for 1.5 months now without any trouble.


Gert Poletiek
Dutch National Institute for High Energy Physics
Amsterdam
The Netherlands