From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 12:57:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637C414C97 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:57:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA98559; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:57:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:57:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: Soren Schmidt , Jean Louis Ntakpe , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata: lost disk contact errors [was: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!] In-Reply-To: <19991211181115.A36357@myhakas.matti.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > I'm getting the "lost disk contact" messages every now and then, but > only on our mp3 machine with PIIX3 controller and IBM UDMA/66 disk. It's > an PPro machine with Intel mobo. Can it be related to newer IBM disks? Depends on what 'now and then' is. The Deskstar series of drives was not intended to run 24/7, and therefore shut themselves down every week to clean the heads. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message