Re: Saving to Floppy Disk under OS/2

["'A. Joseph Ross'" lawyer@xxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> Format a floppy on your OS/2 office machine. Launch XyWrite. Write a
> file to the floppy. Close the file. Re-CAll the file. Alter it. Try
> to SAve it (overwrite it) on the floppy.

I tried this. I didn't get the "Unknown Unit" error.

I also tried doing a Chkdsk on the particular floppy in question, and it
found some currupted EAs and fixed them. Then I tried modifying and
saving a file on that floppy, too. That also worked, and I didn't get the
"Unknown Unit" error.

So I guess the problem was a bad EA somewhere. on the floppy that I was
using to transport files back and forth between the two computers. But
since my home computer runs DOS, and not OS/2, I wonder whether copying
files to that disk in future on my home machine will cause corrupted EAs
again.

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