From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 23:21:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA18071 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU [128.250.6.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18060 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:21:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from s_koyin@localhost) by eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA29886; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:20:19 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:20:19 +1100 (EST) From: Ivan Ngeow To: Robert Eckardt cc: Gianmarco Giovannelli , roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Something to worry about ? In-Reply-To: <199611172145.WAA00957@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Robert Eckardt wrote: > > But it seems that this message pops up when the system is NOT idle. > (I would expect some sort of auto power-off after some time idle.) > (The system is a 486DX2/66, 16MB RAM, Bios doesn't know about fancy > power saving, system(2.1.5R) on wd0, home on sd0) i have a 486DX2-66 with APM-1.1 BIOS, running FBSD-2.1.0. i get this message only _sometimes_, and this is after the hard disk is spinning up again after a spin-down (whether due to idling or leaving suspend mode). does me no harm, though the disk does seem to give a few loud knocks if FBSD gets impatient and insist on reading the HD when it's not ready. ivan