Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What does "Probable Non-DOS disk" mean?
Message-ID: <1989Dec13.032905.5886@druid.uucp>
Date: 13 Dec 89 03:29:05 GMT
References: <1598@dsac.dla.mil> <918@unocss..unl.edu>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
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In article <918@unocss..unl.edu> ho@fergvax.unl.edu writes:
>
>I have a sneaking suspicion that, since lots of other people seem to have the 
>problem, it is a bug in DOS which occasionally corrupts the media byte under
>certain unusual conditions.  
>
I never had the problem on any system I used, built, installed or serviced
with the single exception of a drive that actually wasn't a DOS disk.  I'm
no fan of DOS but before you condemn it for that consider the piles of
garbage that passes for software these days that people load on their systems
and then complain that the OS is broke.  If the fault is in the oerating
system I would suspect that it is that ordinary programs have access to the
hardware but then we already knew that didn't we?


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