I have just installed slackware 9.1 on a toshiba tecra 740CDT laptop. I am using a shuttle epat parallel port disk adapter chip, which worked fine running knoppix.

Fsck reports the following error, after checking the root filesystem on the internal disk.

ERR ABRT TMO

I think that this means it timed out and aborted.

Under knoppix the paride, epat, and pd modules were inserted manually after booting. Under slackware, i am using a kernel (ppide from the install disk) with support for such devices built in.


I added /dev/pda to my fstab with a line like this


/dev/pda /mnt/pda auto defaults


I think that there is no way to shorten the access time to the disk, owing to port speed, but how can I adjust the value of fsck's timeout ?

Thanks,
Tim Giffney

Do you have the 2 last number columns (column 5&6) set for your fstab line?
Usually set to 0 0.
Column 5 determine if a filesystem needs to be dumped, and column 6 six define the order in which the filesystems need to be checked. /-filesystem should be set to 1 for column 6, and other filesystems 2 or greater.
If 0 is specified it tells the system that this filesystem doesn't need to ber checked on boot.