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From: chao@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Chia-Chi Chao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Problem
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Date: 4 Aug 89 08:15:04 GMT
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In <6159@hubcap.clemson.edu> rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry) writes:
>
>Check your config.sys file and look for the line
>     BUFFERS=XX
>where XX is some integer.  This is a (painfully) limited caching system
>
>I generally tell people not to use the BUFFERS option in their
>caching program such as DiskQuick of PC-Cache.

The problem also occurred on a PC clone booted up with no Config.Sys.
Therefore, BUFFERS is set to default (2?).  I received a reply from Microsoft
saying this is a very well known problem.  I guess if they don't know a fix to
this (without rewriting DOS), I just have to watch what I do with floppies.

Thanks.    Chia-Chi