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From: kji@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ken Isacson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Strange DOS error messages
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.032059.2228@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Mar 91 03:20:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.153142.3610@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>
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In article <1991Mar27.153142.3610@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller) writes:
>
>	Here's an unusual situation...  About two or three times a week, I'll
>be using by Zenith-248 (286-8MHz) for something that requires more hard drive
>usage than normal, such as PKzipping/unzipping or (more likely) a Norton
>Speeddisk or DiskDoctor checkup, and the system will stop and announce
>"Drive not ready: close door" (or something very similar).  This makes little
>sense as a hard drive, of course, has no door closed or otherwise.
>
>	Fortunately, I also get the option (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail or 
>(I)gnore [Note: I'm running 4DOS], and the (R)etry invariably works.  It *is*
>an annoyance, however, and if anyone has any idea how it could be fixed,
>please let me know.
>
>				Thanks,
>
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> Neal Miller          |  "Why not go mad?"     |  millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu
> Clarkson University  |        - Ford Prefect  |  millernw@clutx.bitnet 
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I have the 248 at 8mhz and also run 4dos along with the above programms
that you say are causing the problem.  I have never had this problem.

However, I have had a data read error because a few places on my second
hard drive are bit flakey and are not flagged as bad.  (R)etry worked
just fine.


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