>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom >> Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 4:00 PM >> To: Robert Waldner >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper >> Subject: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad >> install prob) >> >> Have other people exerienced this? (I've never used Windows >= 3.1, >> so I don't know.) >> Richard> It works correctly from the dos box in WIN98 second edition. I wouldn't Richard> recommend trying it while you have other application running. Linux has similar trouble under certain conditions. I wrote a little program that will set the scheduling policy and priority of a PID, and used it to set the `esd' (enlightened sound daemon) to Round Robin Scheduling with a high priority, so that the music doesn't skip when I switch virtual desktop screens in `sawmill'. With that setting, burning a floppy image with `dd' produces `boot-floppies' root.bin diskettes that fail the CRC check. Resetting the `esd' scheduling policy to the standard setting, I find that diskette images I burn work fine, given the identical image file and diskette. So if you're using POSIX real-time scheduling, don't use the floppy disk. The floppy won't get all of the timeslices it needs, and will be unreliable. -- Those who do not study Lisp are doomed to reimplement it - Poorly. A few months in the laboratory often saves several hours at the library. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom)