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From: schuler@gondor.UUCP (David W. Schuler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: hard disk monitor
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:32:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 12:32:55 1985
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> when ms-dos has a problem reading a sector from a floppy or from
> the hard disk, it retries up to 5 times.  trouble is, it does not
> warn you when it recovers after, say, 3 or 4 attempts.  one would
> like to know when this is going on, since it is an early warning
> of disk problems.
> 
> one of the pc magazines published a short article with code to patch
> ms-dos so that it would report as it retried disk operations.
> can anyone provide a pointer to the article?  has anyone actually
> implemented this?  experience?  thanks, -ron gordon (allegra!rdg)

I would also like a copy E-mail or post to net.

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