Commodore PC - Seek error; Sharing violation; Write fault error; Write protect error

Appendix D Disk and Device Errors 269
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Seek error
■ ms-dos is unable to locate the information on the disk.
() Make sure that the disk is properly inserted in the drive, or try
a different drive.
/—v Sharing violation
■ A program tried to access a file that another program was
currently using.
s~^ Choose A (for Abort), or wait awhile and choose R (for Retry).
Write fault error V\T
■ ms-dos is unable to unite data to the specified device.
C*\ Make sure that the disk is properly inserted in the disk drive.
Try R (for Retry). If the error occurs again, choose A (for
Abort).
^? Write protect error
■ You tried to write data on a write-protected disk.
—^ If the disk has a write-protect tab on it, you must remove the
' ) tab before you can write on the disk. (You should consider first
why the disk was write-protected.) If the disk doesn't have a
write-protect notch, you cannot write on that disk.
Action Messages
^—^ The action message may be either of the following:
reading
— writing
Device Messages
The device is the name of the device that has the error. Examples
are device PRN (for a printer) or drive A (for a disk drive). MS-DOS
smm^ waits for you to type one of the following responses:
A Abort. End the program requesting the disk read
or write.
f) I Ignore. Ignore the bad sector and pretend the error
did not occur. This may result in lost data.
R Retry. Repeat the operation. You should use this
(] response when you have corrected the error (for
example, with "Not ready" or "Write protect" errors).