>> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom >> Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2000 12:08 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Robert Waldner; debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper >> Subject: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box >> under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob)) >> >> Richard> It works correctly from the dos box in WIN98 second >> Richard> edition. I wouldn't >> Richard> recommend trying it while you have other application running. >> >> Linux has similar trouble under certain conditions. > >The motivation for my comment is that you don't want any application trying >to access the drive apart from rawrite. You'll be suprised how often this >can >happen and it totally stuffs things up. > >Regards >Richard
I had the original thinkpad problem. Turns out I was making the floppies correctly (rawrite2 in plain DOS)--for some reason my TP didn't like slink (or at least the source of those files). I have sucessfully installed potato (16 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and am now thoroughly and happily confused (thanks to Gary in Wien for suggesting it!). I am resisting the urge to query the list daily (actually I'm too busy this week to do so) and plan to R all TFMs. Related to another thread, has there been any discussion of a [EMAIL PROTECTED] perhaps some of the more experienced folk could rotate monitoring it. Just a thought. Thanks to all for allowing me to learn a little through osmosis. Mike Skipper
