Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 03:05:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>) Message-ID: <199908100105.DAA08856@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Doug wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote:
>
> > FWIW - I enabled APM over the weekend, configuring drives to
> > spin down when not used for a good period of time. I get the
> > message you list below, alternately with status 50 and 58, any
> > time a drive needs to spin up.
>
> Thanks for the response. FWIW I have no apm enabled and these
> drives don't have a chance to spin down since they're always busy when
> under load.
Do those drives happen to be IBM DeskStar drives?
They spin down automatically when they have not been turned
off for about a week, in order to clean the heads.
It's a feature.
Regards
Oliver
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