[Empeg-general] Re: Failed to unmask IDE

[mlord@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

<That's what it said while trying to boot up. 
<Is this something to worry about?

I don't think so (I wrote the kernel code that results in that message).  It's a probabilistic thing in the kernel, dependent on how much I/O is going on at the time, with a 3 second timeout.

I suspect the player issues the unmask command at the same time that lots of other disk I/O is happening, and sometimes it just doesn't get done within the three second allowance.

(note that there's been a "fixme" note on that code since the beginning, but nobody's ever gone back and fixed it).

I'll increase the timeout to 6 seconds in the next Hijack kernel.

Cheers