Date: Sun, 1 Nov 92 12:08:35 GMT
From: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: disk problems

I reported recently about disk problems I was having which only 
occured on certain systems. Some ideas for the cause I want to discuss here:

It seems quite certain that it is not a motherboard problem. I moved around
with the disk and tried the program in different motherboards from the same
disk. The problem did not only occur on one disk. I tried a second one
of a different brand. It was showing the same Drive error Abort/retry/fail.
Sorry I don't know the exact english text of that message because it appears
in dark letters on dark background and the DOS is a german version. But
it is something like "Severe drive error, Abort,Retry, Fail".

Could it be, that go32 does not intercept disk i/o errors and leave it to
the OS to handle that by those abort/retry/fail? messages?
I will check next if it is a disk error in the paging file. None of the disk
utilities I ran on the hard disk reported any errors, though.

Is there a way to intercept the hard error and pass it to the program for better
backtracing of the problem?


--Chris