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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Bug in HDX (SH-204 hard disk owners take note)
Message-ID: <432@atari.UUcp>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 18:40:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.432
Posted: Thu Oct  2 18:40:32 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 12:40:20 EDT
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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This is a note to owners of Atari SH-204 hard disks.

As mentioned on Compuserve (and here on usenet), there is a bug in
HDX, the hard disk installer and partitioner for the SH-204 hard disk.
The bug manifests itself when the partition editor is used to bump
partition sizes up and down.  The editor can create overlapping
partitions and other nasty situations, which eventually result in a
corrupted file system.

IN THE INTERIM:
The "menu" of standard partitions in HDX is safe to use, as is the
initial 4Mb-6Mb-10Mb partition setup after a format.  ONLY the editor
has a problem.  Don't use it.

If you've got an SH-204 hard disk, and you used the editor to change,
add or remove partition entries, you should back the disk up and
re-partition it from one of the canned partitions from the menu.

I've fixed the problem in HDX, and we're testing the bejeezus out of
it before letting it out again.  It will be distributed *soon* on
Compuserve, on the Atari BSS, and to dealers.  [Not on usenet, though,
for obvious reasons.]


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-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		        {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer

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