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From: slimer@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: (abort,retry...) *IGNORE* (?)
Message-ID: <216100142@trsvax>
Date: 13 Sep 89 13:06:00 GMT
References: <524@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM>
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!slimer    Sep 13 08:06:00 1989


  From my understanding of the "abort, retry, ignore?" as traced through
  the BIOS listing is that you will get this message if there is a problem
  reading the disk. If you Ignore at this statement, what-ever information
  it did read from the disk is used, if you Retry, it will again try the
  I/O. If you abort, guess?

  Ignoring means that it uses what data it did read. I deduct this from the
  fact that both I traced BIOS and that there have been many times(maybe
  for you too) where I said Ignore and all my data was intact after the
  read. This has happened on copys of ASCII files, text files, data,
  executable, you name it. Sometimes the Ignore doesn't help and I end up
  with a bad copy anyway, other times it's like the ignore was never needed
  (the read looked good).


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