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From: rdg@allegra.UUCP (Ron Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: hard disk monitor
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 21:49:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 21:49:44 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)