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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.6 problems
To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz)
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:24:09 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <354E0F55.3223CC4@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "May 4, 98 07:56:21 pm"
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In a previous message, Karl Pielorz said:
> Paul T. Root wrote:
> 
> > I've got the following errors:
> > 
> > wd0: interrupt timeout:
> > wd0: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0
> > wd0: interrupt timeout:
> > wd0: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>
> > 
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> This is probably due to the hard drive spinning down and going to sleep -
> FreeBSD normally disables the sleep mode in more recent versions (though it
> doesn't seem to always work) - have you tried disabling the 'drive spin
> down' parameters in your systems Power Saving options? (Usually under the
> BIOS?)

Hmm, I thought it was turned off. In it's other life, my machine is running
NT, which is very uncooperative with laptops. I've pulled the disk and
put back in NT. So I'll try tomorrow.

> My HP Laptop used to do that until I manually told it _not_ to spin down the
> hard drive :-)
 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl Pielorz
> 


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