Bug in HDX (ATARI hard disk utility)

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From: XBR4D76H
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1986 06:42

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A few weeks ago I bought a SH204 harddisk. After formatting and partitioning
into 2 logical drives with the HDX program I started to transfer lots of
stuff from floppys to the harddisk.
After some Megs' I realized that the desktop directory listing of the 2nd
drive was scrambled. Looking into the directory with a diskeditor I found
text (Grrrrrrrr). This text looked terribly like a file I transferred to
the 1st drive last.
To make things short, it was the file.
A quick view onto the partition information block (sector 0 of hard disk)
showed that HDX created two overlapping partitions.
Trying different partition sizes I found that HDX was only able to create
correct partitions if I selected one of the predefined partitioning schemes
of the menu.
Did someone have similar problems with HDX ?

  Konrad Hahn
  Techn. University Darmstadt
  Dept. of Computer Science (Datentechnik)
  Merckstr. 25, D-6100 Darmstadt, W.-Germany
  BITNET: XBR4D76H@DDATHD21

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