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- From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
- Subject: Re: What is HARDERR.EXE doing to my disk?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.140019.16402@kub.nl>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:00:19 GMT
- Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- References: <1993Jan8.133829.15837@piston.detroit.ingr.com> <930108132820@rgam.sc.ti.com> <1993Jan11.083114@axion.bt.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan11.083114@axion.bt.co.uk>, djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson) writes:
- |> 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.
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- Nope. The HARDERROR deamon sits in your system looking for severe (hardware)
- problems, such as open disk drives. It will stop the requesting app, put out
- a message box to let the user correct the problem, and if everything seems alright
- it lets the app continue. If the user cannot correct the problem, an error code is
- passed to the app.
-
- Try a DIR A: without a disk in the drive-- there's your HARDERR program!
- (Try this with HARDERR killed-- I'm curious what will happen!)
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- Source: Inside OS/2 by Gordon Letwin.
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-
- Jeroen
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