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From: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Problem
Message-ID: <2842@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 13:20:35 GMT
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Reply-To: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein)
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In article <6159@hubcap.clemson.edu> rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry) writes:
>From article <16031@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by chao@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Chia-Chi Chao):
>> ... 
>> 3. DOS reports write-protect error -- Abort, Retry, Fail?
>> 4. Swap Disk #1 with Disk #2 and use Retry.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Funny you should mention that, I just happened to be browsing 
through DOS 3.3 Users Guide yesterday and came across the 
following tidbit (on page A-1) about the Abort, Retry, Ignore, 
Fail? message:

              *WARNING: If either of these messages appears for
               a diskette drive, DO NOT change disks before responding
               with A,R,I or F.

So it would appear that Microsoft is at least aware that the hazard exists,
but I will admit that yesterday was the first time I ever got around to 
actually opening the users guide booklet that came with the larger 
reference manual.

Ted Goldstein
Purdue University School of Technology
du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu