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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)
In-Reply-To: <19991217072524.B320@tar.com> from "Richard Seaman, Jr." at "Dec 17, 1999 07:25:24 am"
To: dick@tar.com (Richard Seaman, Jr.)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:28:29 +0100 (CET)
Cc: djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
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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


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