Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> 
> The only time this has ever been reported with IDE disks, AFAIK, is
> when a disk spins down (usually due to APM, but some desktops will
> spin down the disk as well) in the middle of a transfer.

FYI: This happened on a three year old 486 with no APM and with a brand
new disk. That doesn't mean it didn't spin down for some reason,
though...

>   In this
> case, the transfer is retried and unless you get a `hard error
> {read,writ}ing fsbn ...'  message, you can assume that nothing was
> lost.

I didn't so I guess I can. Thanks!

Gunnar

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