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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!cs.utk.edu!gaia.ns.utk.edu!tyco.cs.utk.edu!barry From: barry@utk.edu (RUSSELL BARRY) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some (more) questions ... Date: 3 May 1996 09:29:04 GMT Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4mcjl0$l0d@gaia.ns.utk.edu> References: <nC8236527@longacre.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tyco.cs.utk.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael Searle (searle@longacre.demon.co.uk) wrote: : I have been getting '/kernel: fdc0: input ready timeout' messages - what do : they mean, can they be ignored? I am using an DOS format floppy, which is : read and written to correctly, and get the messages at any time when the : floppy is mounted, and often several messages when accessing the floppy. : Accessing the floppy seems to be very slow, even for a DOS floppy, sometimes : taking several seconds to write a 10k file (from vi). I had this error when I added my Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller and forgot to disable its onboard floppy controller. Disabling the floppy controller fixed it for me. I don't know if this is a similiar situation to yours but you may have an IRQ problem. And yeah, the floppy driver is rather slow. : Also, is there any way of using a swap file which is only created when it is : needed, and grows and shrinks as it is used? The man pages only mention : permanent swap files, replacing a partition. I have a 64M swap partition for : my 16M RAM, which is normally enough but I would like something that would : let me temporarily add another 200M or so to it, without using up any disk : when not in use. No, FreeBSD does not have dynamic swap files, however, if you haven't allready done so, read the manpage on vnconfig(8). *------------------------------------------------------------------* Russell N. Barry barry@cs.utk.edu http://www.cs.utk.edu/~barry *------------------------------------------------------------------*