From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) Subject: Re: MFMs do a 'HD timeout' with Linux? Date: 22 May 1992 13:21:29 GMT
In <qavk4lg.mrs@netcom.com> mrs@netcom.com (Morgan Schweers) writes:
> I've finally got my own home playstation (as contrasted with a
>workstation), and tried to install Linux on it. Linux runs fine
>from floppy, and I can do just about everything. When I run the
>installation script, it thinks everything's fine. I can even 'cat'
>the executables in /mnt/bin, but the second I try to *RUN* one of them
>(or anything in /mnt/etc, or /mnt/usr/bin) it hangs for a few and gives,
>"HD timeout" a few times, then returns me to the prompt.
I'm doing what is a big no-no I'm sure, but I'm running the other way around:
RLL controller, MFM drives. I get ``HD timeout'' messages a lot as well,
mostly while doing something CPU intensive like a compile or accessing
floppy drives and doing something simple like a `cat' or `ls -l' in another
window.
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