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From: dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A hard disk tale
Message-ID: <740@atari.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 12:31:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 12:31:17 1987
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in article <8705271449.AA18225@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, schoepf@DMZRZU71.BITNET says:
> 
> 
> I'm the proud owner of a hard disk.  I installed three partitions with
> 10, 6 and 4 MB and worked with them until last week when suddenly the
> disk broke down.  What happened?
> 
> After three days (and some nights) of work I discovered that the HDX
> program wrote bad partition information onto the disk boot sector.
> Investigation of other hard disks showed that this seems to happen if
> you do not choose one of the partition defaults.
>
> [etc...]

Right.  This (serious) bug was fixed a *long* time ago in
Revision 8 of HDX; when you pull down the "About HDX..." menu,
you should see a date of September 29, 1986 (or later).

If you have an earlier version of HDX, or you know friends that
do, get thee hence to your dealer and get an update.
-- 
-Landon Dyer, Atari Corporation	       {sun,amdcad,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer
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