To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: -O switch 
Date: Fri, 08 May 92 13:04:36 +0100
From: "S. Linton" <sl25 AT cus DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
Status: O



> 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Hm. I had a very similar sort of problem, when an executable hea
> vily used
> the HD. Sometimes an error occurred like this: the HD lamp went 
> on for a few
> seconds and afterwards DOS popped up with a drive read error or 
> something,
> but it refused to accept any answer to the (r)etry (a)bort (i)gn
> ore question.
> In any case the machine froze requiring a hard boot.

I to have seen this, most often from the compiler. It appears to be
completely random and the drive passes Norton disk test afterwards.
	Steve Linton