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The article "The Great Pretender" in the April 1988 issue of AmigaWorld covered the IBM bridgeboard's ability to share Amiga resources through the JLINK command. There were two points that should be clarified. First, the article stated that the command: JLINK C: HD0:VDISK /C:1000 creates a hard disk of size 10 MB. The manual states that in using the switch /C:N, N equals the number of Kilobytes, thus the switch should have been /C:10000. I have used this command with the disk partitioned into two Amiga sections. thus my command is: JLINK C: P2:VDISK /C:10000 This worked fine for initializing the disk. However, after writing to the hard disk, and rebooting and re-issuing the JLINK command: JLINK C: P2:VDISK I lost all the data I had written. The Author writes later in the article that the JLINK command must also be used at the end of each session to unlink the hard disk to avoid data corruption. This is a poor solution, since a power outage could wipe out the contents of your IBM data. I received information from Commodore regarding a better solution. The solution is to fill up the entire Virtual hard disk by copying garbage to it. I did this by creating a series of junk libraries and copying large files into each one. Then unlink the Virtual drive. Next, reboot the system (for good luck). Then delete the junk directories (first the contents, and then RD the directories). This seems to make the VDISK file hold its form. After doing this, there should be no need to unlink at the end of each session. /ex