From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 7 23:04:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA06974 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:04:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA06936 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:04:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA18757; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:51:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA10317; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:51:55 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:51:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199712080651.XAA10317@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0 interrupt timeout In-Reply-To: <199712071828.QAA18606@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> References: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk> <199712071828.QAA18606@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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