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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Hardrive problem!
- Message-ID: <2cZ4XB1w165w@status.gen.nz>
- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 10:37:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan28.103444.28589@fwi.uva.nl>
- Organization: The Z*NET International News Gateway in New Zealand
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- storm@fwi.uva.nl (Richard G.C. Storm (I89)) writes:
-
- > Hi all,
- >
- > A friend of mine bought a new harddrive for his atari.
- > It runs fine and works well until he switches off his computer.
- > After switching it on again some records and files are just
- > missing.
- >
- > Anybody out there had the same problem and knows what to do
- > or should he just buy another :-)
- >
- > Thanks Richard
- >
- > --
- > Richard Storm, storm@fwi.uva.nl ||
- > University of Amsterdam.
- >
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- The most common problem is a 'write cache' in the autofolder causing
- it. Check to see if there is one enable and if it is disable it.
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- Jon Clarke Z*NET Pacific
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