Date: Sun, 10 May 92 13:18:29 EDT
From: davidf AT algol DOT cs DOT umbc DOT edu (Mr. David W. Flater)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: HD Errors
Status: O

The following message contained no header lines indicating that it had gone
through the mailing list, so I will make the worst case assumption and protect
the anonymity of the author despite the plural audience context:

> You have to go back to first causes with stuff like this.  Most of you
> are running into problems with paging when you run out of real memory.  Ipso
> facto, there may be something wrong with how paging works.

This is what I originally believed--but see below.

> Now this business of DOS reporting disk errors has only one explanation -- 
> Somebody (either go32 or your DJGPP-compiled program) has been writing
> through
> a wild pointer into the DOS data areas.  That's the only time you see those
> bogus hard disk error messages.  Believe me, I've seen that many times with

I would not claim for a minute that DJGPP does not corrupt memory.  Ctrl-
Alt-Delete doesn't work on my machine after I run go32 on anything.  However,
people have been saying that they get the same kind of crashes with
lots of different software, in which the only common factor is heavy HD usage.

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