Error - "Disk Error 51" When Client-Server Is

DocumentID: 636713
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:04:21 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer receives the error "Disk Error 51 Reading Drive [. 1 Retry; 2 Cancel" on a Netware Lite 1.0 network when one client-server is turned off and another client-station has a drive letter "net mapped" to it. This occurs with both WordPerfect 5.1 and WP 5.0. Other programs mask this error message when it occurs. Solutions: "Disk Error 51" means "Remote Computer Not Listening" and is hardware related. It is logical for this error to occur when a client-server has been turned off because the connection has been broken. If WP 5.1 is run from the client-server that is being turned off, using /R/D-local drive options will direct the temporary files to a local drive and put the overlay file in expanded memory allowing the user's work to be saved. Troubleshooting this error could include checking the cabling, network cards, IRQ conflicts, addresses. In this case WP is just letting the user know that the resource is no longer available. One user was able to work around this by pressing 1 for Retry after the server was brought back up.

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