Roxanne Pierce wrote:

> The one time I saw exactly this is when DMA was enabled on the hard
> drive in question.  Disabling it fixed the problem. To find out
> whether you have DMA enabled, go to Control Panel, System, Device
> Manager. Click the + next to Disk Drives, then double-click the disk
> drive whose settings you which to check (you might as well check all
> of them).  In the resulting window, click the "Settings" tab, and look
> for the DMA box.  If there is a check mark there, clear it.

I followed your advice and went to the Control Panel, did everything
stated here. I did not see anything in the Properties of each drive at
all that there was/is even a DMA (word or initials, whether greyed out
or not).

In General, in all of the drives, it says that "This device is working
properly."

In Settings, in all HDDs, it indicated the brand of HDD, firmware
revisions, etc. and enabled in Options are all the same:
Disconnect and Sync data transfer. In my FDD, instead of Disconnect
enabled, it is Removable that is enabled and that is the only thing
different.

> If DMA is not enabled on any of the hard drives, then could you tell
> us precisely which hard disk controllers are being used?

I have written this down in my letter so I will just copy and paste here
for convenience:

3.2 Western Digital HDD on Primary Controller (as Master) with 2.5
Quantum Siriocco HDD (as Slave)
5.1 Maxtor HDD on Secondary Controller (as Master) with HP CD-RW 7100i
(internal, as Slave)

> Again, in Device Manager, click the + next to Hard Disk Controllers.
> What is listed there?

Creative Labs IDE Controller - I connected my CD ROM in this one. - Int
10Intel 82371 AB PCI Bus Master IDE Controllers - Int. 14 and 15
Primary Bus Master IDE Controller - Int. 14; Parent Device: Intel 82371
AB Bus Master IDE ControllerSecondary Bus Master IDE Controller - Int
15; Parent Device: Intel 82371 AB Bus Master IDE Controller

> Do any of the entries have an exclamation mark?

Nope. All of them are reported to have no conflict at all and all HDD
are working properly, according to General Buttons. So I am really lost
..... any further thoughts?

I am not removing my original post here in this letter just in case
someone might want to take a look at my problems at all. Thanks Roxanne.

> Roxanne Pierce
> R2 Systems, San Diego
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
>
> On Monday, March 09, 1998 19:14, Iz Kuzara
> [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> wrote:
> > SYSTEM:
> >
> > PII 233MHZ
> > operating Win95B
> > EPoX EP-61LXA-M motherboard
> > SBW32 Soundcard
> > HP Scanjet 3c
> > Matrox Millenium II
> > 3.2 Western Digital HDD on Primary Controller (as Master)
> > with 2.5 Quantum Siriocco HDD (as Slave)
> > 5.1 Maxtor HDD on Secondary Controller (as Master)
> > with HP CD-RW 7100i (internal, as Slave)
> >
> > Somehow, I was able to trace my I/O 378 original problem through a
> secondary parallel port card I had installed in one of the ISA bus
> which I wanted to use for my Zip Drive. I removed the problematic port
> and the error disappeared. But I still have the same secondary error
> later on as the computer continued on booting which says:
> >
> > One or more of your hard disk drives may have a bad sector. Press
> any key to start ScanDisk.
> >
> > I wasn't given another choice in the matter, so I press any key and
> it automatically run ScanDisk. (If Norton 3 is running, it would have
> gone to the equivalent version of Norton's but I had since deleted the
> program from this computer for the moment). During the first few
> times, I let it run ScanDisk. It never finds any problems with my HDDs
> at all. I soon tire of running ScanDisk and just exit the program
> everytime. (Once in a while if I am busy with other things I let it
> run its
> > course.) So I cannot say I did not give it a chance, eh? Anyoldwho,
> when it goes to Win95, it will blink on me with the error/s :
> >
> > DISK WRITE ERROR:
> >
> > Unable to write to Drive C:
> > Data or Files maybe lost.
> >
> > Press any key to continue.