Nick Selby wrote:
On Monday 12 August 2002 05:06, Basil Chupin wrote:
Nick Selby wrote:
On Saturday 10 August 2002 10:58, Basil Chupin wrote:
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A the time of writing this response to you, I received a reply from NeTraverse suggesting that it was reiserfs (which clears bffers every 5 seconds as programed by the authors) and Windows which writes to the HD constantly (!) [but not when I am running Windows neat on my machine
:-)] and so resierfs keeps clearing the buffers every 5 seconds- hence
the "hits". This reply from them was even after I told them that one doesn't have to be running Windows to have the 5-second "hits", and it was after this that I did some more testing and found what I described in my previous message: one does not need to have Windows installed at all and that the "hits" start as soon as the Win4Lin component is installed. This piece of information I sent them within their 48-hour "time limit" to respond but because this was over the weekdend I will have to wait till at least tomorrow for a reply from NeTraverse.
What I do now is to boot with Win4Lin when I want to use a Windows application but then reboot just with Linux for most of my 'work'. This way I only get the "hits" for a short time while I am in Windows. A pain in the ass but.... And if it wasn't for my scanner (a Canon which even SANE doesn't have a driver for :-() I wouldn't have bothered with Win4Lin.
Terrific. From Netraverse's website:
"Win4Lin enables Linux users to run popular Windows programs at native speeds without additional hardware or the need to dual boot..."
So what it seems is that in order to have the ability not to DUAL boot, I need to REBOOT every time I want to run windows under Linux or risk my hard drive being roasted and toasted.
I hope this is not really the case. I know that the netraverse people seem heinously overworked, and therefore try to quiet technical queries in a friendly yet ordinarily vague manner. I'll try the w4l mailing list - have you?
Nick
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No, I haven't tried their mailing list. I'm subscribed to too many as it is. As far as running Windows applications "at native speeds" under Win4Lin is concerned, this is not so - unless there is something wrong in my whole setup. This I will check with a friend of mine (and have been meaning to check with him for a while now) who is also running Win4Lin and because he's been using W4L since version 2 he'll have a better picture of its performance. Cheers.