floppy error

floppy error

[Vedran Vucic]

Dear colleague,

I have installed dosemu-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm  on my RH 8.0 machine.  I use it for 
bookkeeping program that is written for DOS.

I have one very strange problem with floppy drive while running dosemu.
Actually, it happens that when trying to read from floppy while in dosemu
prompt c:\ it shows on screen the following error:

Error reading from drive a: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
whenI press Abort
it prompts with:
out of memory error


It is significant that it actually have not tried to communicate with floppy 
which normally works under Linux. 
Do you have any idea how I can solve this problem.?


Thanks,


Vedran Vucic

Re: floppy error

[Kevin Noseworthy - Specialty Software]

The "out of memory error" is likely a red herring.   My floppy works 
fine and I get the same error if I try to access it without a floppy in 
the drive.   I would suggest you try copy files to your floppy from 
linux first.

Vedran Vucic wrote:

>Dear colleague,
>
>I have installed dosemu-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm  on my RH 8.0 machine.  I use it for 
>bookkeeping program that is written for DOS.
>
>I have one very strange problem with floppy drive while running dosemu.
>Actually, it happens that when trying to read from floppy while in dosemu
>prompt c:\ it shows on screen the following error:
>
>Error reading from drive a: DOS area: sector not found
>(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
>whenI press Abort
>it prompts with:
>out of memory error
>
>
>It is significant that it actually have not tried to communicate with floppy 
>which normally works under Linux. 
>Do you have any idea how I can solve this problem.?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Vedran Vucic
>
>
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