Howdy!
> You have to start by explaining that you are a masochist and
> get turned on by being slapped ... :-)
Whip me, beat me, make me write bad cheques!
> > > Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> > > > > Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
>
> > > Bootsector viruses do not need any OS to work. They just assume
>
> > All of which (I must happily say) can't affect me, because there's no dos on
> > this system, no M$ anything :-)
>
> Let me rephrase:
> A bootsector virus does not care if you ran DOS, Windows, BSD,
> Solaris_x86, Plan9, Linux, Hurd, or anything else on your Intel
> PC. It does not depend on an OS. It *will* kill your LILO if
> it is in the MBR. All it takes is a floppy that is booted from.
>
> Bootsector viruses are very wide spread, too, and are easy to get.
Unless thier non forign floppies...
Anyhow, on to staying on topic...
[SNIP!]
> > > > 2: IRQ is a non issue for me (relates to top secret stuff)
>
> > > Governmental IRQ ... or is that No Such Ir(a)q? *grin*
>
> > Nope, as in I won't be running out any time soon, honest.
>
> Ah, that would explain your lack of respect for bootsector
> viruses: No Intel platform. Right?
nope... Dual P133, remember?
Yeah, right now IRQ is maxed (all free ones are in use) but that is soon to
change. I also have an IDE tape deck coming in... as a donation to the
project here... This doesn't mean that I won't be using ftpae, however,
because more || storage means faster backups. Infact, I have to make a post
reguarding another tape deck series following this one...
> > Both units are fairly low mileage, actually. Moreso, the do work fine on a
> > 386... can't be the decks, it's not the cables or connectors. It's not the
> > tapes. It's not my DMA controller, because it does work with atleast one of
> > the tape decks... therefore, it has to be the software :-)
> > It's the only logical conclusion.
>
> No (I think). Unless ftape senses how much fragmented your disks
> are (or if you reintarnated your drives) and then randomly hickups
> (or behaves). As you looked through the code (didn't you?),
> you may have noticed there's no such routine build in. Or did
> you recompile ftape in the mean time? Changed the version?
> And then sudenly it stopped, but on the (current) backup you
> still had an *age* old version ...
I think it's irq saturation from the fragmentation... Same thing can happen
to high speed serial I/O... I think it's more of a latency problem... I know
it's also probably a bad thing to cli() arround the code, but who knows... I
might even try that.
> Maybe your computer *IS* possessed. Or it's a Heisenbug,
BOO!
> > > Next you say the earth is flat. :-) Or you faked your address
> > > ... shouldn't there be an 'heaven.org' or something?
>
> > Actually, my host name is dr.ea.ms
> > :-)
> > Don't believe it? look it up!
>
> Naah, I'd rather not look up to anything with m$ in it, it may
> cost $2000 :-)
Not even crash.01-01.oo.ms? (I own that too... tee hee)
> > > No, it's a question of memory fragmentation.
>
> > *lightbulb explodes* Mebby it's taking my box to long to page RAM?!
> > I did the restore w/out telling the box I had 128M, and as you know, the
> > 2.0.x series is >64M dumb.... oh my gosh...
> > however... this still doesn't explain why it *IS* working with the regualr
> > setup too... ahhh yes, yet anther thing for me to check out and test...
> > *scribble*
>
> No, I doubt that. You could run swapout 30 first, then you
> should have more than enough space without paging. But actually,
> the more RAM, the less you need to page (buffers and cache can
> be simply dropped and forgotten).
Ok, I'll try swapout more ram, we'll see what happens...
Prolly the first logical thing I didn't think of doing.
Simple fix too. I suppose you suggest I exit X too, so that it frees ram,
right?
> You say you compile a lot ...
> did you ever get sig 11 errors? If yes and if it's no cyrix, it
> is marginal hardware. (maybe a ram loosing it's mind, eh,
> bits.)
Nope, no SIG 11... I haven't seen SIG 11 since I completely dropped cyrix
cpu's about 3 years ago. All it took was one cpu, I'll never buy them again
:-)
> [memory fragmentation and DMA buffers]
> > I know it does :-) When/if the backup fails, I'll change my method.
>
> Just don't let the box unattended for more than a couple of days.
It sometimes is left alone for a week (no admin, users pounding on it)
Yours,
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