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- From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: What is HARDERR.EXE doing to my disk?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.083114@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 08:31:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.133829.15837@piston.detroit.ingr.com> <930108132820@rgam.sc.ti.com>
- Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk
- Reply-To: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
- Organization: British Telecom Research Labs
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- In article <930108132820@rgam.sc.ti.com>, 5692330@mcimail.com
- (Robert Gammon) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan8.133829.15837@piston.detroit.ingr.com>
- |> rimelsjj@piston.detroit.ingr.com (Jim Rimelspach) writes:
- |>
- |> >> After turning my 386SX on this morning, there was an
- |> unsual amount of disk
- |> >> activity. I have no apps other than the WPS running.
- |> My disk is formatted
- |> >> HPFS. I opened a OS/2 Window and did a PSTAT cmd, the
- |> last process in the
- |> >> list was HARDERR.EXE. What's the story??
- |>
- |> I too have HPFS. I have much more than just the WPS
- |> running. PSTAT puts
- |> a LONG list of stuff out, and HARDERR.EXE is there as the
- |> last item in the
- |> list of things that have .DLLs open. I suspect that it is
- |> monitoring for
- |> defective disk locations to relocate data when a sector
- |> becomes defective.
- |> Sounds like you are seeing HARDERR.EXE at work fixing bad
- |> sectors.
- |> --
- I think that HARDERR.EXE is in control of the swapping
- process (a hard
- error being one which requires paging in from/out to disk).
- It's active
- all of the time, on all systems, whether HPFS or FAT.
- David J Jackson Telephone +44 473 645805
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