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Date:	Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:54:22 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 <20030126142409.SM01228@host-66-81-193-131.rev.o1.com>, on 01/26/03
at 03:10 PM, Michael Rakijas said:

>I would recommend this, actually, anyway since you have a large D:\
>drive. I boot to a 6 GB drive (Master, IDE) formatted HPFS C:\. I have
>a 32 GB (Slave, IDE) formatted HPFS D:\ that would not go through a
>chkdsk if it wound up dirty after an abnormal shutdown. Even with 256 MB
>of main memory, chkdsk would complain of not enough memory. By

I would have recommended this too if the symptoms were the same. Harry is
only autochecking his boot partition and it is small enough so that
chkdsk.sys is not required.

>CALL=C:\OS2\CHKDSK.COM D: /C statement right after my DPATH statement.
>I'm not sure but I though I was supposed to remove D: from the autocheck
>list of the HPFS IFS statement but it is in my current CONFIG.SYS so I

The call to chkdsk is a no-op if you have D: in the autocheck list. One
benefit of using the call rather the autocheck is faster chkdsk's because
the kernel is fully up and running when the call's execute. It's a good
way to clean drives that are not referenced during boot. It also avoids
the reboot forced by chkdsk.sys.

I'm pretty sure that chkdsk.sys is only used for autochecking drives
specified in the ifs statement. I know cfgdat.inf says otherwise, but
that does not jive with what I know.

While checking my memory, I found this link:

http://www.goldencode.com/atlos2/tips/1297tips.html

It's a good discription of the various options.

Steven

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