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From: mcohen@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Marty Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: phantom
Summary: Playback messed up my FAT
Message-ID: <756@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil>
Date: 13 Mar 91 13:42:44 GMT
References: <3251@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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Organization: Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
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I got phantom downloaded and apparently working, but when I ran the
demo playback it used a dos subshell and worked fine until the end.
At that point it started writing nulls to my hard disk.  I had to
reboot to stop it.  When I ran chkdsk to get rid of the six-megabyte
unclosed file of nulls, it gave the "possible non-dos disk" message.
Everything else seems to be OK, but I don't know how to fix the FAT
media status byte, so I keep getting the same message whenever I run
chkdsk.  Can someone tell me where to look for the FAT with debug?

I have MKS Tools running in user-login mode (I start init.exe from
config.sys).  My machine is an original IBM/XT with a new 20MB disk.
I am running Compaq DOS 3.31.  Intel 8088; BIOS 11/8/82.
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