The entire PST bike race crew just got back from Olympic Road Trials/Elite Nationals in Mississippi. Everything went great except for an anomalous occurrence where one of our EtherLynx photofinish systems running on a 2gb NT partition refused to continue capturing images after about the first 5 seconds of button-pressing. We were totally confused for awhile, swapped every individual component & cable to no avail, and finally declared it "an unresolvable NT mystery". WRONG!!! After giving it some thought, it occurred to me to check the hard disk space. Sure enough there was only 10megs free. The 5-second capture lockup took up 5megs of that, and the rest was assigned to a swap file, in effect maxxing out the HDD. There were no error messages at all, from either NT or Lynx, so be warned --- always make sure you have plenty of hard disk space before running an event. Lynx files tend to be very big, especially if you do not use the Autocrop feature. (From now on) I try to keep at least 1Gig free on the working drive where Lynx is installed. Lesson learned!


Originally posted 24 May 2000 by Andrew Allan
aallan@alphasports.tv