Hi all,
I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60.
The issue is outlined in the correspondence quoted below. Any idea,
anyone?
> > >When my hard disk has stopped, and some access attempt
> > > wakes it up again, it doesnt quite manage to spin up before
> > > the file system beeps.
> >
> > The file system beeps? Never heard that before.
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> The fact that something beeps when the IOSS is unable to complete an
> operation is obviously as new to you as to me, then. In fact I have
> heard it before, namely in the demo version of QPC2: When you try to
> save a file (writing to media has been disabled in the demo) you get
> a "buzz" instead. I presume what this means is that although the
> filesystem has accepted the transaction (the file is apparently
> visible until the end of the session) it has not been commited to
> the media! The problem is, that it is too late to return an error at
> this stage as the call has already returned, so it buzzes instead to
> alert the user to the condition.
>
> Ok, so back to my situation: When my drive has stopped, any
> io-access to the drive starts it up again. Great! However, the
> drive does not manage
> to spin up in the time allotted before the IOSS gives up with
> failure. Another < second would have done the trick. Is there
> a way of changing this (a poke, if nothing else)?
Per
