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- From: lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Why HD led stays on and world stops for a while?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.082503.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 06:25:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.121507.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> <downs.48.725595851@helios.nevada.edu>
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- In article <downs.48.725595851@helios.nevada.edu>, downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes:
- >> I have Seagate 65MB RLL + Stacker 2 and I am having this
- >> odd problem. Sometimes on second partition HD led turns on
- >> and everything stops for few (5 - 20) seconds. Then it continues
- >> without problem. It depends which programs I am using. Some
- >> does it never but eg. Wing Commander 2 was a pain, because
- >> every minute it stopped and it happened mostly in battles
- >> so it was quite annoying.
- > Are you using the Smartdrive that comes with Windows 3.1? It uses delayed
- > write to disk and if every now and then too much accumulates in the write
- > buffer and it hasn't been given a chance to write to disk it will interrupt
- > everything else to catch up with its backlog. On a slower machine/drive
- > especially this could cause some relatively lengthy interruptions at
- > seemingly random times.
- >
- > Lamont Downs
- > downs@helios.nevada.edu
-
- Yes I am using that Smartdrive. But I think if Smartdrive had something
- to write it would write, not just light leds and freeze for a moment.
- I know this Seagate is slow but not that slow. One thing good about
- it is that at least you are able to verify bye ear if it is writing.
- But this beast is just spinning not writing. Is Smartdrive doing
- something else (finding right things to write)?
-
- I have to try it without delayed write.
-
- Thanks,
- Lauri
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