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Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:09:16 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: CHKDSK/SYS3175

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In
<200302032059474.SM01228@dialup-63.209.93.6.Dial1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net>,
on 02/03/03
at 08:57 PM, Michael Rakijas said:

>I guess not so much that it is complicated for HPFS.IFS to know the
>chkdsk call elsewhere but that it tries in both locations but fails when
>invoked at the IFS.

This is expected without chkdsk.sys loaded.

>This is still somewhat counter to my experience. Dirty shutdowns did
>seem to prompt the call to chkdsk.com in the "CALL" line. I could
>witness the "Searching for lost data" after the call (some text is
>produced at every reboot after the "CALL" statement, "Searching for lost
>data" only appears after a dirty shutdown). The IFS invoked chkdsk has
>failed in the past because of insufficient memory.

I would expect this if the IFS chkdsk failed, but with chkdsk.sys loaded,
it's not supposed to fail.

>> As I said, I have not tested this, but I would be surprised if were
>> otherwise.

>I'll report back as soon as I find out.

Yes, please let me know. In this case, I'm going by knowledge of how
things are supposed to work rather than direct experience.

Steven

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