Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gondor.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!psuvax1!gondor!schuler From: schuler@gondor.UUCP (David W. Schuler) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: hard disk monitor Message-ID: <1816@gondor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:32:55 EDT Article-I.D.: gondor.1816 Posted: Wed Sep 25 12:32:55 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 08:35:16 EDT References: <5141@allegra.UUCP> Distribution: net.micro.pc Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 25 > 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David W. Schuler {akgua,allegra,ihnp4}!psuvax1!psuvaxg!schuler Penn State University schuler@psuvax1.bitnet +--+ +--+ + + Home of the 1982 | | | | | 1985 Season 2-0 National Champion +--+ +--+ | | (so far) Nittany Lions | | | | + +--+ +--+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "...on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rear." - Montaigne