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From: PRINS%HLERUL5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ryko Prins, CRI, Leiden, Netherlands)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: HELP! ST Hard disk problems.
Message-ID: <8093@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 6 Feb 89 12:13:46 GMT
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About two weeks ago I wrote about the problems with my new Megafile 60.
I can create a file system, but after some time it becomes corrupted:
from about a 100 blocks before the minix boot block to about 250 blocks
after were filled with hex FF's the last time I tried.
Luckily there was not yet data on the previous partition.
Two people gave a helping hand (thanks, guys - at least for trying to help)
and one of them suggested I maybe should look for a patch posted somewhere
at the end of last year which would fix a known problem with large file
systems (mine is 15K).
After two weeks of searching the December archives and the first January
archive I still haven't found the patch.
I don't dare to put Minix again on my hard disk because I am afraid that
next time it will really corrupt data on other partitions.
Therefore, I would like to ask if someone could please post me the patch
that fixes the problem with a hard disk with large partitions?

                                                Thanks in advance,
                                                        Ryko Prins.