Re: Questions about EMC

> I use EMC everyday. My biggest complaint ,... problems with improper
> shut downs and restarts. Sometimes I get a message about file problems
> that are force checked ( pass), then all is well . But if I get
> "FAILED" all is lost., I have to reinstall. Now to what I would like
> to see. Software that does the task at hand regardless of the
> operating system. Why must we operate cnc software under a system
> that was designed for a office environment, ei DESKTOP.

Linux is about as bulletproof as you are going to get without big bucks and esoteric
coding issues. you could do a real-time fault tolerant vme bus system but that's $$$

You don't need to reinstall, you just need to manually run "fsck". When linux boot
dies, it should dump you into a very limited shell where you can repair your
filesystem. I'm not familiar with the BDI flavor of linux, but with redhat and such it's
not hard to do. Also you may whant to try one of the linux journaled filesystems
which should eliminat your fcsk woes.

One thing that helps with the manual FSCK'ing is to know what partitions on your disk
your filesystem lives. I'd bet the BDI uses one big partition for everything. When it's
running , you may want to more the mtab file and make note of where your partition
lives physically on the disk so you can more easily do a manual fsck without hunting
for a valid partition.

Sheldon