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From: ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Somebody...Anybody...HELP!!!
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Date: 26 Jun 91 17:04:38 GMT
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>I am having a problem writing data to my hard drive (especially drives E&F).
>I get all kinds of cross linked errors (found using Norton's Disk Doctor).
>How can I determine what is causing it?

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Try removing FASTOPEN. About a month ago, there was quite a discussion
of FASTOPEN causing all kinds of weird problems. If that doesn't work,
strip everything out so the system is as virginally clean as possible.
Any software you are running which deals with the disk could be your
problem so try not using it. If your system starts working OK, add ONE
thing at a time. Give yourself several hours of run time to check each
driver or TSR.

I know this type of thing is irritating to do but it works. When I went
to my 486/33 I was having problems like you describe and found that I
had an odd timing problem with my SCSI controller BIOS when doing lots
of file transfers. Oddly enough, reducing the number of BUFFERS in the
CONFIG.SYS to 4 seems to have made the problem almost non-existant. The
disk cache takes up the slack in disk access speed that reduced buffers
caused.

Ed
ekalenda@cup.portal.com