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From: laverman@prismaa.prl.philips.nl (Bert Laverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari SH205 Hardisk partitions
Summary: Are they correctly made
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Date: 13 Dec 88 12:37:51 GMT
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Reply-To: laverman@prismaa.prl.philips.nl (Bert Laverman)
Organization: Philips Research Labs Eindhoven
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I have been using for some time now an Atari SH205 harddisk. I have
partitioned it in 4 pieces of 5Mb each. (actually the first one has a
little extra as the total disk space is a little over 20Mb) The `manual'
that was included appeared to be the German translation of the SH204,
but since it was stated in the config file that a SH205 is simply a
SH204 with a different cover, I think that's ok.
The formatting and partitioning seemed to go fine.

But...

When I inspected the boot sector to look for the partitioning table
which the manual described, it wasn't there! The Harddisk driver
works fine, and 4 partitions is no problem, but the data structure
that should describe it isn't present. When I tried to run
PC-Ditto to see if it would recognize the hard-disk, it gave
disks C-F all as partition 0!!

Can I just patch in the table? Anybody else noticed this problem?

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	Bert Laverman

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