Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 11:52:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Gary Welles <GWELLES/0001178863 AT MCIMAIL DOT COM>
Subject: Re: Diskopt Sort (/Sa) Failure
To: OpenDOS <OpenDos AT delorie DOT com>
Message-id: <02110316520297/0001178863DP1EM@mcimail.com>
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

After fixing the problem with FDISK and reinstall, I subsequently
managed to unfix it.

The only seeminging relevant change that could have caused the
Diskopt sort failure problem to reoccur, is that I allowed a
Novell DOS Windows utility to set "InDosPolling=0" as recommended
for Netware.  This contravened my I_Cache disk cache software
configuration requirement:

  Windows System.ini file  -
          [386Enh]
             InDosPolling=1   (Windows users only)

I don't think it is a case of set "InDosPolling=0" and die, but
the directory problem is in or about my Windows browser files.  I
presume the browser is making slick disk access moves.  The hang
in Diskopt Sort comes after some time reading which would
coincide with my near the end c:\WWW\Opera subdirectory
containing browser files.  Plus doing restores with FastBack, it
skips restoring files at that point, without error message.

Given the difficulties of putting it right, I'm not going to try
to reproduce the problem.  It returned rather quickly after the
last fix, so I'll see if it holds together with InDosPolling=1.

Gary Welles