From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Noseworthy - Specialty Software Subject: Re: floppy error Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:50:46 -0330 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <405A12AE.6040503@nf.sympatico.ca> References: <200403181701.04800.vvucic@eunet.yu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200403181701.04800.vvucic@eunet.yu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: vvucic@eunet.yu, "linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org" 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 > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >