He said, "Two of my runs ended with the wonderfully informative message 'System error:
Input/output error'."
I don't know exactly how his program works, but I suspect it calculates a set of
numbers and appends them to a file then goes to the next set. As you can see below,
it takes about 12 hours to generate a 2 gig file.
Thanks
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/16/2000 12:51:33 PM >>>
Are you getting this message when installing, or when creating the log file from the
fortran caluclation?
Bob Crandell wrote:
> So is Win 95/98. I think it just needs a setting tweaked but being too new at this
>...
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/16/2000 12:13:45 PM >>>
> Isn't Linux still a 32 bit code? As I recall, a 32 bit code cannot access a file
>over 2GB in size without some kind of
> trickery. Just what I recall.
>
> Garl
>
> Bob Crandell wrote:
>
> > Here is a message from one of my clients. He is running Mandrake 6.0 on a dual
>Pentium 233 with two 36 gig drives.
> >
> > It seems that I've hit a limit on file size. Do you recall anything
> > related to that when installing the big disks? Two of my runs ended
> > with the wonderfully informative message "System error: Input/output
> > error", after running beautifully for ~12 hours. The output file
> > size at the time was 2,147,475,476.
> >
> > He is running some Fortran calculations that generate a temporary file that might
>fill these drives.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks
> >
> > Bob Crandell
> > ComSource Associates, Inc.
> > Your IT Department
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