Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:51:55 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0 interrupt timeout Message-ID: <199712080651.XAA10317@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199712071828.QAA18606@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> References: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk> <199712071828.QAA18606@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis writes: > #define quoting(Philippe Regnauld) > // > For the past several days (the first time being on Dec 2 as shown) I've been > // > seeing the following messages popping up: > // > // [...] > // > // > The system will completely hang for several seconds - no process > // > activity, no disk activity, nothing - then the drive in question makes > // > the "powering up" sound it does when I first power up the machine, the > // > error appears on the console and activity resumes. > // > // You have auto-spindown / APM enable in the BIOS, and your > // disk spins down when it's been idle for some time (definable). > > What if I have this on a machine without APM support (a very old 486) ? > > I've never had a fatal error, but always have these warnings. Then your disk is probably going bad, like mine did recently. :( Nate
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