Re: [MiNT] Weird Disk problem

[Adam Kłobukowski <atari@gabo.pl>]

Petr Stehlik napisał(a):
> Adam Kłobukowski píše v So 08. 01. 2005 v 20:18 +0100:
>
> > From time to time few first sectors of my HDD get zeroed, for no known 
> > reason.
> >
> > Fortunetly I do not keep valuable information on my C partition, and I 
> > do backups of it often, so recovery is just a matter of minutes.
> >
> > If anybody does have any reasonable explanation of this, please rise 
> > your hand and step forward.
>
>
> Nothing reasonable, just some thoughts. I have often heard in Atari
> realm that it's good to partition disk to contain a small C: with just
> boot stuff and then D: (and possibly more partitions) for valuable data
> since sometimes the C: partition is lost. Don't remember the reason but
> I do remember this used to be suggested...

My C: partition is 100MB. It does not contain very valuable data, only 
bootup stuff.

> Also, I do remember that TOS 4.01 had a bug in its GEMDOS and when a
> partition was almost full (or was it just the FAT table full?) it simply
> started writing from the beginning. A GEMDOS bug would not rewrite boot
> record and partition table, though.

Known bug - if partition was full, data was written in next sectors, and 
that could destroy next partition. I does not seem to be my problem. And 
it was in TOS 4.01 IIRC, and I ahve 4.04

> I think I heard about a similar but slightly less dangerous bug in TOS
> 4.04, I might even have a test program that proves the GEMDOS problem
> somewhere.

More information could be handy.

> So maybe that the problem in 4.01 was not a GEMDOS bug but something
> deeper, more dangerous.

Maybe. But why I'm the only one victim? Everybody here are using Falcons 
for years, anybodu remember such crashes?

> At last, your disk driver might be doing some nasty things. Which one do
> you use?

Hddriver. Recent version.

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Adam Klobukowski
atari@gabo.pl