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I have had my SH205 hard disc for almost a year, and have been using
it heavily. Here's what happened to me lately.

My SH205 hard disc occasionally gave these "Data on disc C/D/E may be
damaged" messages (in the course of running a program!),
which were easily remedied by switching the drive
off and on (once or twice or thrice). Then one day whilst staring
at an editor screen I noticed my disc coming to life. After exiting
the editor the file I had been editing had grown from 10k to 2M.......
(note: I don't have a MegaST, and my editor (Tempus) calls
 it quits well before 800k)
Curiouser and curiouser: I deleted this file, and found that my 4M
partition on the hard disc had 3M used and 3M available. Most files
were found to contain just repetitions of their first 20 or so lines.
Luckily I am paranoid about this sort of thing and had a 3-day old
backup of everything important. (Long live Flashback!!!!!!)

Do people out there have similar experiences?
Are other discs than the Atari more trustworthy?
(Am I doing something wrong? I do switch off the drive when I don't
 need it for a while, such as when using Uniterm)

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                        Victor Eijkhout          u641000 at hnykun11.bitnet