Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!jack
From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SH204 disk errors
Message-ID: <159@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 6 Jan 88 13:38:33 GMT
References: <46@lzaz.ATT.COM> <930@atari.UUCP>
Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 22
Keywords: sh204, disk, strange behavior

In article <930@atari.UUCP> jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler) writes:
>
>That is definitely NOT true.  The SH204 and SH205 do indeed return with
>an error flagged when one occurs.
>
>Jim Tittsler, Atari Corporation

If this is true, there's some pretty lousy software inside the ST.
Some time ago, a friend of mine connected a 40Mb drive instead of the 20Mb
inside the 204, and, in the process of finding out how big it was, he noted
that he could format 40Mb, 60Mb, 100Mb, etc etc etc. So, we blamed the
drive and repeated the process with the standard one. Same thing.
You can format a SH204 as 4 10Mb partitions. No problem. You can even write
files onto the third and fourth partitions. No errors. Of course, reading
the files again proved to be rather disappointing.

Since that time, I've started to be *very* careful with my SH204......


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