Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!gidora.kralizec.net.au!not-for-mail From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some (more) questions ... Date: 5 May 1996 14:22:30 +1000 Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4mhae6$adf@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <nC8236527@longacre.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.zeta.org.au In article <nC8236527@longacre.demon.co.uk>, 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 This was caused by a bug in the floppy driver. It only occurs for some floppy controllers. It is fixed in 2.1-stable and -current. It is fairly harmless apart from wasting time busy-waiting and recovering from the error. >Accessing the floppy seems to be very slow, even for a DOS floppy, sometimes >taking several seconds to write a 10k file (from vi). msdosfs is very slow, especially for writing. >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 Swapping only works on block devices, but any file can be turned into a block device using vnconfig. -- Bruce Evans bde@zeta.org.au