Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!steinmetz!galen!leue
From: leue@galen.steinmetz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: That's SUM Bug!
Keywords: SUM, Semantec Tools
Message-ID: <13816@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 16 May 89 17:19:35 GMT
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Reply-To: leue@crd.ge.com
Organization: General Electric Research & Development
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I've noticed what appears to be an ugly bug in the "Disk Tools"
application that comes with the Semantec Utilities for Macintosh (SUM) product.
(Sorry, I don't have the version number with me, but I just bought it a
month or so ago.)  If you use the "Read Absolute Sector" menu item
while editing a Volume and type in a sector number greater than 32767,
you get an "I/O Error", with a negative sector number.  Clearly, someone
used a 16-bit integer to store the sector number.  Ouch!! My puny little
30-meg HD has more than 64,000 sectors.

This would be a good one to fix, if anyone from Semantec is listening.
BTW, Other disk editors (Fedit +, etc.) have no problem reading sectors
past 32767.

-Bill Leue