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Subject: Re: int 0x24 dos critical errors retry count ?
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:08:58 -0000
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> > Under DJGPP it appears
> > to retry 30 times or so before giving up!!!
>
> I don't think I see this, but I use CWSDPMI.  Did you try CWSDPMI
> (although I don't think it matters)?
>
> Also, what, if any, memory manager do you have installed on that machine?
> And what version of DOS?

Arrrgh my mistake, many apologies!
DOS does try the int 0x21 call 3 times before giving up.
Sadly I forgot that my code loops 10 times attempting to open the file, due
to another feature where the floppy spinup delay is not automatially
handled. This coupled with the fact that dos attepts 3 times (not 2) gives
me my figure of 30. (/me slaps own wrist)

BTW System is...
Datalight ROM-DOS 6.22 + HIMEM.SYS + PMODE13 (pmode.dj)

Now I need to figure out if there is any way to set the AL return code from
a PMode int 0x24 isr in C++ (another post)

thanks for the help