mullen@sdsu.edu (Deborah Mullen) (08/17/89)
I am working on an application using a Compaq 386 that has been modified to use a Western Digital disk controller board instead of the multifunction io card. Other modifications include two segate type 251 42M hard disks. No special harddisk device driver is being used. Every now and then, (in the space of a few hrs) while running the application, files (that are not being used) are getting corrupted ( parts of a cluster will have changed data). Also, running norton DT before and after running the application, shows numerous new bad clusters. My questions. Is there any way software can corrupt the disk media? If memory corruption occurs in the system area, would that mess up the FAT? Could it be possible that a special harddisk driver needs to be installed? The application does not crash. It is only after stopping the program that I discover the disk errors and it does not happen all the time. Any comments would be appreciated. --Deborah Mullen