Re: Why HD led stays on and world stops for a while?

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From: Lamont Downs
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:24

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>        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

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