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From: alexew@watdcsu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: File corruption
Message-ID: <2792@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 16:31:09 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.2792
Posted: Mon Nov 24 16:31:09 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Nov-86 01:43:03 EST
Reply-To: alexew@watdcsu.UUCP (A.E.Wielhouwer - Computing Services)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Can anyone find an explanation to this one, I'm dumbfounded !

We've recently had a problem with a program ( The Waterloo JANET Network
file server program ) on an PC-AT under DOS 3.1.  The program runs at about
200 sites world wide ( for over a year ) and has never had this happen before,
nor can I envision how it could happen.  

This program was running for several days ( quite normal ) but when the system
was shut down a 15M file ( contiguous ) on the hard disk had a 5M hole in the
middle. ( front linked to back piece, zeroes in FAT in between. ). Has anyone
else had this experience ? / Does anyone understand the mechanism / a
mechanism which caused it ?..... Thanks in advance. 
-- 
Alex E. Wielhouwer