#: 19606 S1/General Interest
    15-Jan-94  12:34:30
Sb: followup on os9k problem
Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555
To: all

After playing a little more, I have come to the conclusion that DBLSPACE is
not helping to cause the problem I am having.

I re-installed DOS 6, and upgraded to 6.2, ran SCANDISK and all was well.

I booted up OS9K from the installation floppy and did the following:

tmode nopause
chd /hd1
dir -ure

The directory display runs for a second or so, and then returns the error:

dir: can't open "CMDS/BOOTOBJS". Error #000:219

You know, of course, that a 219 is an E_IBA, illegal memory block address.

I immediately rebooted DOS. Since I had not yet installed DBLSPACE, there was
no indication from the boot that there was a problem, but a manual run of
SCANDISK on drive C showed the same type of problem I was seeing before.
SCANDISK reports that the backup copy of the disk's FAT was wrong and it
reported that a file was reporting its size incorrectly.

I rebooted OS9K and tried the same commands as before, with IDENTICAL results,
the 219 error on CMDS/BOOTOBJS. This time I recalled the command with a ^A and
this time the 219 error occured when it was trying to open CMDS, ie, the error
message was

dir: can't open "CMDS". Error #000:219

Running a dir with no switches ran OK and displayed the files in the root of
/hd1, but any subsequent use of the -r switch gave the 219 error on the CMDS
directory. What is strange is this. I then did:

chd /d0
chd /hd1
dir -ure

and it worked perfectly!! All the way through the entire file structure!!

So, bottom line here is that just getting a SINGLE 219 error somehow corrupts
something on the C drive, but I have no way of predicting WHEN I will get a
219 error, or what is causing it.

When I had just one 120M hd and it was partitioned 50/50, I ran and used OS9K
for weeks with no problems, that is, with the same 16M of memory I am using
now. The ONLY difference is that I have no OS9K partition on drive C and all
of drive D is an OS-9000 parition.

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 Zack C Sessions
 ColorSystems

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