Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 08:11:22 -0500
From: treece AT hal2000 DOT sabbagh DOT com (Jeff Treece)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: sector not found

We have been experimenting with compiling a set of large Fortran
programs by converting to C with f2c, then compiling on DOS using
DJGPP.  This method seems to work great except for one apparent
problem that may send us back to the inferior (but stable) DOS
32-bit commercial Fortran compilers.  When running the executables,
which incidentally are smaller and faster than any of the Fortran-
compiler executables that we have ever used, we occasionally get
the "sector not found" message -- abort, retry, fail...
One time we run the executable, it may work.  Then suddenly it fails
with this message.  Chkdsk cleans up the disk OK, but the error happens
frequently enough to be totally unacceptable for our application.
We have had this happen on every hardware combination that we have
available: 386/25 with SCSI, 486/25 with IDE, and 386/33 with MFM.
It has happened with 1.06, and now with 1.07 of djgpp.

I remember hearing about this a while back, but as I recall, the
discussion was "yea, it happens -- run chkdsk."
Does anyone have any additional information on this problem?

Thanks,
Jeff Treece
Sabbagh Associates, Inc., Bloomington IN, (812)339-8273
treece AT sabbagh DOT com   {lots,of,machines}!iuvax!sabbagh!treece