Re: DOS CHKDSK bug (PC)

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:49

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RPH0470@tntech.bitnet (Richard Hosker) writes:

> BTW, by my reckoning, the 65280-cluster limit represents a partition of
> about 130 MB.  No small bug, this... :-(

It is actually worse... The bug triggers on any partition with sizes
between:

	 127 and  129 Mb
	 254 and  258 Mb
	 508 and  516 Mb
	1018 and 1030 Mb
	2035 and 2061 Mb

It's a VERY serious bug and Microsoft deserves a serious flaming for
not telling us for more than a year! Yes, they knew about it one year
ago!

Regards,
Vesselin
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