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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Need a critical error handler
Message-ID: <6191@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:12:29 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Organization: Interphase West, Mountain View, CA
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Hi all.  I am looking for a critical error handler which behaves
as follows:

	IF
	  (error is "drive not ready") AND (drive is a fixed disk)
	THEN
	  silently do a "retry"
	ELSE
	  invoke the existing critical error handler


I need this because my combination of disk and controller gives
this particular error intermittently and retrying always succeeds.
(It's a Seagate ST-238R with a Western Digital RLL controller.  It
gets these errors only at 8 MHz, never at 4.77 MHz, by the way.)

I don't have all the documentation about device headers and other DOS
junk that I'd need to write this puppy myself, and anyway, I suspect
someone else out there has already invented this particular wheel.
Replies appreciated.

Thanks,
-- 
Bob Weissman
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