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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Re: Hard disk questions
Message-ID: <521@atari.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 13:24:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 19 13:24:40 1987
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Providing "media might have changed" won't fix the 40-folder limit
because when GEMDOS detects this state, it checks the serial number
on the disk to see if it REALLY changed.

Providing "media HAS changed" would be a BIG MISTAKE:  Media-change
causes all open files on the affected device to be SILENTLY CLOSED.

This suggestion, however, spawned a discussion here at Atari which
might result in a backpatch for all existing ST systems which would
fix the problem: a TSR routine which "trims the tree" from outside
GEMDOS, to keep it from overflowing.  Stay tuned...

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