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"Drive Not Ready" Error Running WP With Windo |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The customer is running WordPerfect 5.1 under Windows 3.0 on a Banyan Vines network. When he presses F5 for List Files, he gets the error message "Drive Not Ready Reading Drive F." He does not get this error when he runs WP outside of Windows. He tried marking Exclusive and unmarking Background, and it did not help. He also tried the /NC startup option with no success. Other users report consistently receiving the errors "Drive Not Ready Writing Drive" and "Can't Find File WP.FIL". Solutions: If the Communication Buffer (a parameter set on the server) is too small, the server will not be able to correctly handle the volume and number of requests that users make to the server's resources when running WP and/or Windows. The Communication Buffer can be set from 1K to 400K. The server provides valuable information about the percentage of the communication buffers that are in use at any one time (this can be seen at the file server). If this percentage ever exceeds 35%, the likelihood of seeing "Drive Not Ready" errors increases dramatically. During testing, the communication buffer was increased to 400K. At this point the utilization went from 51% to 7%, and the overall performance of all applications on the server increased. The error messages and subsequent locking was virtually eliminated. The flexibility that the supervisor has in changing the size of the communication buffer is dictated by the total amount of memory in the file server. On the file server, 10-20M of memory and a 400K communication buffer is ideal. Those servers with less than 10M of memory may need to experiment with the size of the buffer. |
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