From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 30 14:03:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA14539 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from lserver.infoworld.com (lserver.infoworld.com [192.216.48.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14524 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccgate.infoworld.com by lserver.infoworld.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #12) id m0u393f-000wynC; Sat, 30 Mar 96 14:23 PST Received: from cc:Mail by ccgate.infoworld.com id AA828223302; Sat, 30 Mar 96 00:51:48 PST Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 00:51:48 PST From: "Brett Glass" Message-Id: <9602308282.AA828223302@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk By the way, while I'd *hope* that the author of the IDE driver would know how to turn off disk spindowns, there's an obvious shortcut. Simply make sure that the system does a seek at regular intervals. To prevent this from interfering with normal operation, the driver could do this only if there had been no disk activity for awhile. --Brett P.S. -- After the most recent install attempt, I got messages of the form: /kernel: arplookup failed for
; system not on local network. Why is the system trying to do an ARP on a system on the other side of the router? The address isn't that of our domain name server (though the domain name server is also on the other side of the router).