Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!jmj From: jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Com port vs. floppy drive Summary: Too many files open. Keywords: DMA Interference? Message-ID: <8289@mhuxu.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 14:23:49 GMT References: <574@elric.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 24 In article <574@elric.UUCP>, billk@elric.UUCP (William A. Karns) writes: > We've been experiencing a problem around here with a mysterious interaction > between serial ports and the floppy drive. This problem seems to be confined > to Unisys PC/microITs equipped with 2 serial ports, 1 floppy drive and 1 > hard drive (which is not to say that changing the value on one of these > parameters alleviates the problem :-). We generally run MSDOS 3.2 around > here, but I wouldn't swear the problem is confined to this version. > Your problem could be that you have too many files open at the time that you are trying to write to the disk. I have run into this problem while using a ram disk to save a file while downloading. When the download was finished I escaped to DOS (Alt-F4, Procomm) to save the file to disk and I couldn't. After a few moments of panic, I discovered that I had a 'too many files open' error which would not let me save to the floppy. I had to 'exit' back into Procomm and 'Alt-X' (quit). This closed files that were opened by Procomm and permitted me to save the file to the floppy. If I could afford to purchase a hard disk I probably would not have this problem. But, Uncle Sam wants his student loans paid back. -- :-{) Remember, no matter where you go, there you are! (Pig Killer) (}-: J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA ...!att!mhuxu!jmj