Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-22 Thread P Witte
Richard Zidlicky writes: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:57:17PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Richard Zidlicky wrote: uhmm, I assume you set the drive asleep using some of the sleep commands. Don't do this! Life expectancy of drives is measured in spinup cycles, not hours of idle

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: However, the search string didnt show up in smsq/e 2.98 for Q40/60. A two-byte-truncated version did show up twice, at $1646e and $164de, Yes, those are the correct locations. but patching those had no effect on the timing. Anything else I can try? I forgot a third one

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:57:17PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Richard Zidlicky wrote: uhmm, I assume you set the drive asleep using some of the sleep commands. Don't do this! Life expectancy of drives is measured in spinup cycles, not hours of idle operation. Modern drives will have

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:37:50PM +0200, P Witte wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60. The issue is outlined in the correspondence quoted below. Any idea, anyone? When my hard disk has stopped, and some access attempt wakes it up again,

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Richard Zidlicky wrote: uhmm, I assume you set the drive asleep using some of the sleep commands. Don't do this! Life expectancy of drives is measured in spinup cycles, not hours of idle operation. Modern drives will have much better spinup behaviour than older ones but that doesn't change

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-19 Thread P Witte
Marcel Kilgus writes: I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60. Search the SMSQ/E file (using Wined, Filed or some other hexeditor) for the hex values 26 2b 01 cc e5 8b 08 2d 00 03 fb 07 There should only be 2(!) occurrences (however, I don't have an SMSQ/E for

[ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread P Witte
Hi all, I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60. The issue is outlined in the correspondence quoted below. Any idea, anyone? When my hard disk has stopped, and some access attempt wakes it up again, it doesnt quite manage to spin up before the file system

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 02:37 ìì 18/7/2001 +0200, you wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60. The issue is outlined in the correspondence quoted below. Any idea, anyone? When my hard disk has stopped, and some access attempt wakes it up again, it doesnt quite manage

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60. The issue is outlined in the correspondence quoted below. Any idea, anyone? Search the SMSQ/E file (using Wined, Filed or some other hexeditor) for the hex values 26 2b 01 cc e5 8b 08 2d 00 03 fb 07 There

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Jul 2001, at 14:37, P Witte wrote: In fact I have heard it before, namely in the demo version of QPC2: When you try to save a file (writing to media has been disabled in the demo) you get a buzz instead. Ummm, if I remember correctly, yhis was due tothe QPC demo version not

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: In fact I have heard it before, namely in the demo version of QPC2: When you try to save a file (writing to media has been disabled in the demo) you get a buzz instead. Ummm, if I remember correctly, yhis was due tothe QPC demo version not allowing any disk writes.

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Jul 2001, at 17:42, Marcel Kilgus wrote: That shouldn't be your problem here. No, that's exactly what it is. If a disc write fails for whatever reason it can't give back any errors because the write call has already returned to the application. Therefore the sound. But the problem

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 Jul 2001, at 17:42, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: In fact I have heard it before, namely in the demo version of QPC2: When you try to save a file (writing to media has been disabled in the demo) you get a buzz instead. Ummm, if I remember correctly, yhis was due

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: No, that's exactly what it is. If a disc write fails for whatever reason it can't give back any errors because the write call has already returned to the application. Therefore the sound. But the problem was NOT that write operations are disabled on the Q60? - So it