Re^6: Generating a readline error

I don't really understand your post. Surely, you are not saying "cause the nifty IBM systems I worked with never give a read error, I cannot image anyone else getting one". I assume you realize not everyone has a nifty IBM system attached to his/her computer?

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Re^7: Generating a readline error by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 18, 2009 at 00:49 UTC
This is a misunderstanding. The disk system (hardware, micro-code on disk hardware, I/F board (hardware and also micro-code) in conjunction with O/S driver and O/S does a lot. I have a prototype IBM drive that after 11 years is failing. I lost a Seagate and a WD drive last year during a massive power failure. ALL of these sub-systems thing fail. I am not saying different. The question appeared to be "how to do I simulate a failure"? I tried to help with that question. All hard drives will fail. It is not "if". It is just "when". I tried to help simulate "when".	[reply]

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Re^7: Generating a readline error
by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 18, 2009 at 00:49 UTC

ALL of these sub-systems thing fail. I am not saying different. The question appeared to be "how to do I simulate a failure"? I tried to help with that question. All hard drives will fail. It is not "if". It is just "when". I tried to help simulate "when".

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