From: jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) Subject: Update (Was: HD timeout on IDE) Date: 7 Jul 1992 09:41:04 GMT
In article <62591@hydra.gatech.EDU>, Garner Halloran wrote:
>Someone suggested to run a process that syncs the drive every 30 seconds to
>keep it active. This sort of works, but eventually I get the timeout again.
>Also if I try to do a mcopy of a large file it dies on me as well.
Is this not the function of the update program run as the first task by the
/etc/rc script? If this is *not* what update does, then what does update do?
-- Jon Brawn, Specialix International, jonb@specialix.co.uk ``Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing'' - von Braun