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- From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
- Subject: Re: Format: Track 0 Bad ... until you reboot!
- Message-ID: <Gary.Woodman.558.712308452@anu.edu.au>
- Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <bondir.34.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:27:32 GMT
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- In article <bondir.34.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> bondir@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu writes:
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- >In both dos 3.3 and 5.0, on a Novell 2.15 network, running format gives the
- >track zero error on all disks. If you reboot, which includes loading all
- >the network drivers, and immediately try format again, it works fine! Can
- >anyone explain this?
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- Could you be loading a TSR after the AUTOEXEC completes?
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- There used to be a problem (up to DOS 4 I think, don't know about DOS 5)
- with FORMAT where it would give the track zero error if "the DMA buffer
- spanned a 64K segment boundary".
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- If you aren't loading a TSR, try loading one (or more, of different sizes).
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