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From: parkb@csri.toronto.edu ("Brian T. Park")
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problem
Message-ID: <8807190132.AA18767@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <4.012935@adam.DG.COM>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 88 20:12:25 EDT


I want to thank those who replied to my SOS on the hard disk 
problem I was having with my Supra Drive 20Meg.  It basically
came down to that nasty 40 folder limit.  Perhaps most of you
know this, but I was under the impression that the limit
only referred to the number of folders one could keep on a 
particular level;  I did not realize that it also applied to
the number of folders one could *look* into during a session.
Well, having a little over 100 folders altogether on my three
partitions, I was just asking for it.

The solution was of course FOLDRXXX.PRG.  (Thanks to Hugh
Redelmeier who sent it over to me.)  This program should be used
by everyone with a hard disk!  In fact, if you use the recently
posted FATSPEED.PRG (speeds up your hard disk fat table access)
then you *must* use foldrxxx.  Otherwise, you will certainly start
wiping out files on your hard disk.  Take it from a person who is 
weeping over five of them.

On Jack Mason's point that perhaps my D: partition, at 4 Megs,
may be too small, I have not noticed anything extra-ordinary
yet.  

Oh, one last thing.  Due to an error an my part, my original
article would not have reach anyone outside North America.  This
followup, however, contains enough to compensate.  I have 
now absolutely no complaints about my Supra Drive, except
for that rather loud hum (but that's another story).  Thanks
everyone.

Brian Park

parkb@emca.waves.toronto.edu
(or parkb@csri.toronto.edu if you are forced)
(no UUCP address because I haven't figured out how UUCP works... :-) )