Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:28:29 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dick@tar.com (Richard Seaman, Jr.) Cc: djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) Message-ID: <199912171328.OAA90417@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19991217072524.B320@tar.com> from "Richard Seaman, Jr." at "Dec 17, 1999 07:25:24 am"
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It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > > Yup, sounds like the problem some are seing, now I wonder why I > > havn't seen it on any of the IBM disks I've access to, hmm... > > > > It apparantly can't be disabled, but I'll try to figure out if > > I can detect when the drive is in this mode, or put it in > > standby mode and back again when there is nothing else to do, > > that should reset the timer... > > Note that the wd driver doesn't "report" any problems. Don't > know if that is because the wd driver handles this differently, > or because the reporting is different. Because the wd driver has a 10 secs timeout, and ata has 5 secs. I think the easiest way to "solve" this is to increase the timeout to 10-15 secs, as little as I want to do that... > The machine that reports these problems runs 7/24, and has for > over a year and a half. The IBM disk has been in for quite a > while (maybe 6 months or more). Only ata "reports" the problem. Se above.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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