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Article #29963Re: SH204 disk errors
From: Jack Jansen
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1988 13:38
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1988 13:38
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In article <930@atari.UUCP> jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler) writes: > >That is definitely NOT true. The SH204 and SH205 do indeed return with >an error flagged when one occurs. > >Jim Tittsler, Atari Corporation If this is true, there's some pretty lousy software inside the ST. Some time ago, a friend of mine connected a 40Mb drive instead of the 20Mb inside the 204, and, in the process of finding out how big it was, he noted that he could format 40Mb, 60Mb, 100Mb, etc etc etc. So, we blamed the drive and repeated the process with the standard one. Same thing. You can format a SH204 as 4 10Mb partitions. No problem. You can even write files onto the third and fourth partitions. No errors. Of course, reading the files again proved to be rather disappointing. Since that time, I've started to be *very* careful with my SH204...... -- Jack Jansen, jack@cwi.nl (or jack@mcvax.uucp) The shell is my oyster.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!jack From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SH204 disk errors Message-ID: <159@piring.cwi.nl> Date: 6 Jan 88 13:38:33 GMT References: <46@lzaz.ATT.COM> <930@atari.UUCP> Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 22 Keywords: sh204, disk, strange behavior