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
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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.
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J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA            ...!att!mhuxu!jmj