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In article <930108132820@rgam.sc.ti.com>, 5692330@mcimail.com
(Robert Gammon) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan8.133829.15837@piston.detroit.ingr.com>
|> rimelsjj@piston.detroit.ingr.com (Jim Rimelspach) writes:
|> 
|>  >> After turning my 386SX on this morning, there was an
|> unsual amount of disk
|>  >> activity.  I have no apps other than the WPS running. 
|> My disk is formatted
|>  >> HPFS.  I opened a OS/2 Window and did a PSTAT cmd, the
|> last process in the 
|>  >> list was HARDERR.EXE.  What's the story??
|> 
|> I too have HPFS.  I have much more than just the WPS
|> running.  PSTAT puts
|> a LONG list of stuff out, and HARDERR.EXE is there as the
|> last item in the
|> list of things that have .DLLs open.  I suspect that it is
|> monitoring for 
|> defective disk locations to relocate data when a sector
|> becomes defective.
|> Sounds like you are seeing HARDERR.EXE at work fixing bad
|> sectors.
|> --
I think that HARDERR.EXE is in control of the swapping
process (a hard
error being one which requires paging in from/out to disk).
It's active
all of the time, on all systems, whether HPFS or FAT.
David J Jackson   Telephone +44 473 645805
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