That is interesting, Greg - Provox takes extreme measures not to hog the processor, but it has still caused problems for me on some systems. Perhaps it depends on the synthesizer also. A related reliable failure for me has been when booting Linux from a loadlin in DOS. The loadlin banner and credits screen rapidly fills the synthesizer buffer and keeps it talking during the time the Linux kernel is testing for the presence of the synth, and as a result the kernel cannot find the synthesizer!!! Another case where the speech has to be silenced before letting loadlin execute. Maybe the loadlin screen output could be redirected to a null device - I have not tried that - but provox also has a command line parameter to shut the speech up, so it can be included in a batch file. Chuck On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Chuck, > I just thought you might like to know that I've used rawrite with 4 disks while provox7 was running and talking, and they all booted and worked fine. So, I guess there is one exception to the rule (grin). > Greg > > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:56:16AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind, which I am sure you already know, is > > that rawrite is very touchy and needs the undivided attention of > > your processor. That means you must disable your speech while > > rawrite is executing. If you let your computer talk while rawrite > > is executing you are virtually guaranteed to have disk errors in > > the resulting floppy. > > Chuck > > > > > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote: > > > > > > > > Well Linux shows it as a 1.44 MB, and other floppies boot just fine. I > > > think I'm going to try the whole process again with a later version of > > > rawrite and see if that makes any difference. > > > thanks for the suggestion, though. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waning Crescent (47% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (44% of Full)
