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In-Reply-To: XBR4D76H%DDATHD21.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, Mon, 22 Sep 86 16:08:31 +0200 (Central

    From Konrad Hahn:
    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 ?

I most certainly did.  I was using a non-standard sized middle partition
(only 2 MB), and after loading on lots of files and folders to the first
and third partitions, the middle one became trashed.  However, John
Fagins of Atari thinks the trashed middle partition was due to my
exceeding the overall limit of 40 folders rather than to a problem with
HDX.

I would like to look at the partition information I am currently running
with to see if I currently have overlapping partitions.  (I
repartitioned into an 8-4-8 configuration (still non-standard) in the
hopes that whatever caused the earlier problems would go away.) However,
I don't know how to read the partition information block on the hard
disk.  I believe rwabs on sector 0 will give me the boot sector for the
partition instead of the partition information block, and I don't know
of any hard disk analogs to the BIOS floprd/flopwr calls for the
floppies.  How did you inspect the partition information block?

--Mike Fischer  <fischer@yale.arpa>
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