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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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