[iyonix-support] Re: Work around for Pyjamas problem
- From: Richard Spencer <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:04:44 GMT
In message <14e4a3934e.trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
MrJTGibbs <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> As the only answer seems to be to clear it with reset, for the last
> month I have pressed reset immediately after switching on as a normal
> procedure, which is no hardship.
> Presto - not one failure in over 60 tests.
I use exactly this method (parallel evolution in action!), power up
and then hold the reset button in for 2 sec after the harddrive has
audibly began to spin up, which is 1-2 sec after initial power up.
There does seem to need to be a delay between the power up and the
reset though for it to be effective. Result: 100% success from ~50%
before using this procedure.
On a slightly related issue when a ctrl-break fails to clear a crash
the hardware can be left in an undefined state (worst case was I had
to leave the machine disconnected from the mains for ~15min before it
would power up). I wonder if the OS could be updated to make
Control-Break do a full hardware reset, or disable it completely?
Richard
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