Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!FISCHER-MICHAEL From: FISCHER-MICHAEL@YALE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: Bug in HDX (ATARI hard disk utility) Message-ID: <8609261602.AA17569@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 12:03:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8609261602.AA17569 Posted: Fri Sep 26 12:03:05 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 03:13:52 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: XBR4D76H%DDATHD21.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, Mon, 22 Sep 86 16:08:31 +0200 (Central From Konrad Hahn: 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 ? I most certainly did. I was using a non-standard sized middle partition (only 2 MB), and after loading on lots of files and folders to the first and third partitions, the middle one became trashed. However, John Fagins of Atari thinks the trashed middle partition was due to my exceeding the overall limit of 40 folders rather than to a problem with HDX. I would like to look at the partition information I am currently running with to see if I currently have overlapping partitions. (I repartitioned into an 8-4-8 configuration (still non-standard) in the hopes that whatever caused the earlier problems would go away.) However, I don't know how to read the partition information block on the hard disk. I believe rwabs on sector 0 will give me the boot sector for the partition instead of the partition information block, and I don't know of any hard disk analogs to the BIOS floprd/flopwr calls for the floppies. How did you inspect the partition information block? --Mike Fischer -------