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- From: hasse@solace.hsh.se (Hans Holmberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: A Bomb in the Post
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.153819.18671@solace.hsh.se>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 14:38:19 GMT
- References: <78220002@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Solace Computer Club, Sundsvall, Sweden
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- In <78220002@otter.hpl.hp.com> cal@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Low) writes:
-
- >I have a problem which might appeal to the older Atari user. It is a
- >bug which has been driving me nuts for years, and if I don't get a
- >fix I'm going to fill my hard disk full of gunpowder and mail it to
- >Atari.
-
- >First, the system. It is one of the "black brick" 520s with external
- >power and an external floppy. It has been upgraded to 1 Mbyte. It has
- >been completely, utterly reliable in every respect EXCEPT for the
- >Atari SH204 Hard Disk which I have had for several years, but rarely use
- >because there is a bug in the system software which results in a partition
- >being completely buggered on a regular basis. The symptom is that
- >all the filenames become something like "zzzzzzzz.zzz", and most
- >of the files are completely filled with garbage. I have to zero the
- >partition to resume. It has happened on all my partitions at one time or
- >another. It has happened three times today.
-
- I had similair problems, and the cause was a bug in the PAL that is
- situated on the SH204 SCSI-Hostadapterboard. Since I got a replacement it has
- worked perfectly for 3 years.
-
- >Colin Low
-
- /Hasse
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