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In <78220002@otter.hpl.hp.com> cal@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Low) writes:

>I have a problem which might appeal to the older Atari user. It is a
>bug which has been driving me nuts for years, and if I don't get a
>fix I'm going to fill my hard disk full of gunpowder and mail it to
>Atari.

>First, the system. It is one of the "black brick" 520s with external
>power and an external floppy. It has been upgraded to 1 Mbyte. It has
>been completely, utterly reliable in every respect EXCEPT for the
>Atari SH204 Hard Disk which I have had for several years, but rarely use
>because there is a bug in the system software which results in a partition
>being completely buggered on a regular basis. The symptom is that
>all the filenames become something like "zzzzzzzz.zzz", and most
>of the files are completely filled with garbage. I have to zero the
>partition to resume. It has happened on all my partitions at one time or
>another. It has happened three times today. 

I had similair problems, and the cause was a bug in the PAL that is
situated on the SH204 SCSI-Hostadapterboard. Since I got a replacement it has
worked perfectly for 3 years.

>Colin Low

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