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Re: 2500 and format

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From: Chris "I'm Outta Here!" Seaman
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 18:13
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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

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that perhaps
you forgot to reboot after doing prep (BEFORE formatting the partitions).
Prep writes the new partition information to the disk, but the OS
has no idea of this until the next reboot.  Consequently, it will
only format what it thinks is the current partition size.

I had no trouble converting my hard disk to a ~100KB DH0:, with the
remainder as FH0:.

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From: crs@cpsc6a.att.com (Chris "I'm Outta Here!" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2500 and format
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Date: 15 Feb 90 18:13:20 GMT
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