Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rdg From: rdg@allegra.UUCP (Ron Gordon) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: hard disk monitor Message-ID: <5141@allegra.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 21:49:44 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.5141 Posted: Fri Sep 20 21:49:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 04:49:29 EDT Distribution: net.micro.pc Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 10 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)