loki@moncam.co.uk (Never Kid A Kidder) (10/14/89)
When issuing an interrupt 21H (DOS function call) from an assembly
program, specifying a file on a remote system, the functions 43H (find
first) and 3CH (create file) causes the system to come back with `Not
ready error reading drive <whatever>', and does the old
Abort/Retry/Fail thingy. The `ethernet activity' square lights up
continuously for 5-10 seconds before this failure. Ordinary DOS user
commands like `dir' and `copy' work fine.
Has anyone else ever come across this? Are these DOS calls trying to
be clever and attempting something naughty at a lower level than the
ethernet driver, perhaps? Or is there something that needs to be added
to config.sys that isn't done automatically by the installation
program?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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