I have a 10.2 slack (kernel 2.6.13) running on a rather old Assus CUV4X M/B with a PIII 1000MHz
processor machine and plenty of RAM(2G) and SCSI disks(brand new)
I run a perl script that at some point says
$rc=system ("cp file1 file2");
$rc should be 0 unless the copy fails. The disk is only 50% full, so
this is not the problem. When this does I get an error
$rc=65535. From the little I have found on the web, this seems to be an old problem
for old BIOS and kernels <2.3. Strangely enough I do not have
ever this problem with 2.6.11 Suse on an identical machine(except that machine has 2 processors)
, so this is why I am posting to this forum(also because slackers usually know best
)
The problem is not deterministically reproducible, i.e. when I start the code, it usually
gives that error message pretty soon, but after some more attempts it runs apparently fine for
longet rimes. Is a bios upgrade the solution? This is not supposed to be necessary for 2.6.14....
