RE: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob))

["Richard Lyon" <rlyon01@ozemail.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: karlheg@bittersweet.intra [mailto:karlheg@bittersweet.intra]On
> Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom
> Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2000 12:08 PM
> To: rlyon01@ozemail.com.au
> 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