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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: That's SUM Bug!
Keywords: SUM, Semantec Tools
Message-ID: <24485@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 16 May 89 20:06:50 GMT
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In article <13816@steinmetz.ge.com> leue@crd.ge.com writes:
#>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

I've found Symantec very forthcoming in fixing bugs. I had
a version with bugs in the installation procedure; they
sent out corrected disks right away. Have you tried phoning
their support number?

Steve Goldfield