Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 2500 and format Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 90 23:02:25 GMT References: <1990Feb14.031321.10430@jdyx.UUCP> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Distribution: usa Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 25 In article <1990Feb14.031321.10430@jdyx.UUCP> shawn@jdyx.UUCP (Shawn Hayes) writes: > > I have a question for anyone from CATS or anyone else about how to reformat >the drive that comes with a 2500. I just got through trying to make enlarge >the FH0: partition on my Rodime drive to 3 meg. Everything worked fine, >the PREP went fine , and the format for both FH0: and FH1: worked great. > > The problem occurs when I try to put files on the FH0: partition, which >is the second real partition on the drive. For some reason when the drive >gets past 70% capacity I get a Disk Corrupt message and have to reboot. The >only way to fix the problem is to go back to the 2.6 meg partition for FH0: that >CBM specified originally. Any have any ideas why I can't change the size of >this partition???? > > Shawn Hayes Did you tell PREP that you had changed the size of the first partition? You MUST do that (I learned it the hard way!). -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)