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AST RESEARCH, INC.            TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 0956                 8-8-94

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                        ASCENTIA 900N SMARTSLEEP PARTITION SIZE


PROBLEM:        Running FDISK will show in addition to the primary DOS
                partition, that there is a 34 MB non-DOS partition.

CAUSE:          The partition was created using the AST ZDISK utility.  The
                SmartSleep partition size is now pre-set at the factory to the
                maximum size of 34 MB.  This allows the user to upgrade memory
                size to 32 MB without reformatting the disk.


SYSTEMS
AFFECTED:           AST                                              REVISION
                PART NUMBER             DESCRIPTION                    LEVEL

                501299-2XX      ASCENTIA 900N 4/50 CS10 All
                501300-3XX      ASCENTIA 900N 4/50 CT9  All
                501302-2XX      ASCENTIA 900N 4/75 CS10 All
                501304-3XX      ASCENTIA 900N 4/75 CT10 All

SOLUTION:       If the user has no intention of running SmartSleep and wants
                to use the 34 MB of disk space, it will be necessary to delete
                both partitions (i.e. primary-DOS and non-DOS), create a new
                partition, and reformat the drive using DOS FDISK.EXE and
                FORMAT.COM.

                WARNING: Be sure to back up all data before deleting the
                         partitions and reformatting the hard disk.