From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 25 15:29:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24629 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24581 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:29:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA14540; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:58:57 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199802252328.JAA14540@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Sakari Jalovaara cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New SoftUpdates test kit In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:47:34 +0200." <9802251447.AA01437@poveri.tekla.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:58:56 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > this is not always true, this can also happen if the disk has spun down due > > to power managment... > Seconded. Before rushing to get replacement IDE drives, try to check > for spindown. Stop in BIOS setup (or whatever) before booting / after > halt and wait and listen if the drive goes silent. Takes 15 minutes > for me; YMMV. Hmm.. only one of my drives ever does this.. Its the damaged one =) It shuts down after about 5 minutes of idleness :-/ > I haven't had crashes or anything due to spindown; spin-up just > freezes FreeBSD solid for a couple of seconds (no mouse or keyboard > response.) I've just sort of supposed it is mostly harmless... It doesn't freeze it under current, it blocks disk access instead.. (much better IMHO :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message