Hello,
No it is not the same file that "gs" is working upon and LaTeX is
building. Something more : today I was running ONLY the "gs" program on
the same file; it did produce the first 145 pages and then it stopped
producing the following message~:
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset time out, status = 0xff
hda: status timeout, status = 0xff{Busy}
end request: I/O error, dev 03:01, sector 2
I kept the machine open for some time; the same message repeated
with sector numbers changing; the sector numbers appearing befor I made
for a hard boot were 2, 4, 6.
Please help me. Thanks in advance.
Partha Pratim Ghosh
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Richard Andrews wrote:
> >I have the a 486DX and with Slackware 96 installed in it. It was running
> >well for the last two years. Suddenly from the day before yesterday when
> >I am running concurently "gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=legal
> >-sOutputFile=m%d <a big .ps file consisting of 157 pages> -c quit"
> >concurrently with LaTeX compilation under "emacs" the machine is telling
> >after some time "hda time out", "hda busy" and the operation is stopping;
> >if in X, then the cursor gets still and I have to do a hrad boot.
> >
> > Please tell me what is the problem and what is its remedy.
> >
>
> Make sure you aren't circularly writing (ie. writing to a file which calls part
> of its self and then inserts its self into its self etc.) I mistakenly did this
> once when compiling a LaTeX doc and it chewed through all my hard drive space
> before I knew what was going on (thankfully I only had to delete one file).
>
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