Hi,

On Jan 16, 2017 11:24 AM, "Eric Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>
> > C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm
> > .... file list ...
> > Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
>
> You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current
> directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A:
> drive? That sounds like a bug in the kernel, either
> in the drive status init or in findfirst / findnext

It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the
IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN.

But I personally just avoid Find and use Xgrep instead.
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