I had the same problem once which eventually got worse and worse
and was not limited to any particular program. Fortunately I thought
that the hard drive may have been on the verge of failure and purchased
another one, installed it and then backed up the entire system onto the
new drive.
Within a month, unfortunately, I was proven right. The drive completely
failed. Time-out errors can occur if the drive encoder or motor is
starting to fail. It may not happen all at once, at first. But
eventually, if that
is the problem, it will just stop working alltogether.
Hope I'm wrong and Hope this helps. On the bright side, drives are dirt
cheap right now.
JC
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:30:18 +0530 (IST) St Xaviers College
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hello,
> No it is not the same file that "gs" is working upon and LaTeX
>is
>building. Something more : today I was running ONLY the "gs" program
>on
>the same file; it did produce the first 145 pages and then it stopped
>producing the following message~:
> hda: drive not ready for command
> ide0: reset time out, status = 0xff
> hda: status timeout, status = 0xff{Busy}
> end request: I/O error, dev 03:01, sector 2
>
> I kept the machine open for some time; the same message
>repeated
>with sector numbers changing; the sector numbers appearing befor I
>made
>for a hard boot were 2, 4, 6.
>
> Please help me. Thanks in advance.
>
>Partha Pratim Ghosh
>
>On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Richard Andrews wrote:
>
>> >I have the a 486DX and with Slackware 96 installed in it. It was
>running
>> >well for the last two years. Suddenly from the day before yesterday
>when
>> >I am running concurently "gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -dNOPAUSE
>-sPAPERSIZE=legal
>> >-sOutputFile=m%d <a big .ps file consisting of 157 pages> -c quit"
>> >concurrently with LaTeX compilation under "emacs" the machine is
>telling
>> >after some time "hda time out", "hda busy" and the operation is
>stopping;
>> >if in X, then the cursor gets still and I have to do a hrad boot.
>> >
>> > Please tell me what is the problem and what is its remedy.
>> >
>>
>> Make sure you aren't circularly writing (ie. writing to a file which
>calls part
>> of its self and then inserts its self into its self etc.) I
>mistakenly did this
>> once when compiling a LaTeX doc and it chewed through all my hard
>drive space
>> before I knew what was going on (thankfully I only had to delete one
>file).
>>
>>
>>
>
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