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From: paone@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Phil Paone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Quiry about the reliability of Atari hard disks
Message-ID: <9938@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 10:24:13 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 10:24:13 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 03:51:11 EST
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: Atari, 1040ST, hard disk drive, reliability

I bought one of those drives in January and I have still not had a
problem.  I am well over the 40 folder limit (around 100), but I know
that I am playing russian roulette.  

I seems to go slower the more full it gets.  I guess I should have
made the partitions smaller.  Also, the drive comes without an
essential program, a backup utility.  I just got one from Start, but
it only does full backups, which is a terrible waste considering that
my drive is only at half capacity.

I found no problem with the documentation.  It even went into the
signals and data formats used in the data transfer.  All the support
programs were clearly documented and a list of do's and don'ts was
included. 
-- 
Phil Paone
paone@topaz.rutgers.edu

"Admiral...There be whales here"