Microsoft KB Archive/63604

FIX: SAF GP-Faults Loading Files from Drive A or B

PSS ID Number: Q63604 Article last modified on 02-03-1994

1.10 OS/2

BUG# OS/2: 5426 (1.1)

= SYMPTOMS =

SAF will General Protection (GP) Fault when trying to access drive A or B in the following manner: 1. Invoke SAF. 2. From the File menu, select Open. 3. Insert a disk into Drive A. 4. Select the “A” drive from the Drives/Dirs box; SAF will GP-fault. 5. Select the Return The Error To The Program option from the GP-fault screen, until the OPEN file screen is displayed and the Drive A is selected. 6. Enter “.” into the text window on the OPEN file screen to select all the files from Drive A. The GP-fault process begins all over again, but it now is in an infinite loop if the Return The Error To The Program option is selected; that is, the operation will not be successful on the third iteration, as described above.

= WORKAROUND =

To break out of this loop, select the Retry Operation option from the GP-fault screen. This successfully displays the OPEN file screen with the Choose box containing a list of Drive A files from which to select for loading into SAF. If you select the Retry Operation option from the GP-fault screen instead of the Return The Error To The Program option, processing will continue without looping.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server version 1.1 (dated 06/18/90). This problem was corrected in SQL Server version 4.2. For more information, contact your primary support provider.

= Additional reference words: 1.10 SAF =

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