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From: apratt@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A new victim of 40 folders, i think...
Message-ID: <696@atari.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 12:13:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  6 12:13:05 1987
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in article <8704031501.AA13923@inria.inria.fr>, poirot@inria.inria.fr
 (Didier Poirot -- SPIT) says:
>
>  One can consider me as another victim of the 40 folders war!!
> 
> However, i use a rev. 8 AHDI program. The problem has appeared when, after
> a session of 7 or 8 hours, i began to uuencode a program to archive it later
> on my mainframe.
> 
> Note: I format the HD using non standard partition sizes. 
> (ie: 7 + 7 + 3 + 3)

I would like to take this opportunity to remind everybody that RUNNING
WITH HDX VERSION 8 IS NOT ENOUGH.  You have to FORMAT and PARTITION
your disk with HDX version 8 to get the benefits.  The bug was
in the partitioning; specifically, nonstandard partition sizes.

If you partitioned your disk with pre-version 8 HDX, ask yourself this
question: did I use one of the menu selections, or did I choose the
sizes with the up & down arrows?  If you used a menu selection,
you are okay.  If you used the up & down arrows, you should back up
your hard disk, reformat it, and repartition it with HDX version 8.

If you can't remember, you have to decide whether to take the risk.
The problem will occur when a partition is nearly full: the symptom
is that the next partition's files all get lost, and the root directory
is shot.

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