Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:59:01 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Jean Louis Ntakpe <ntakpe@ffab.tide.ti.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata: lost disk contact errors [was: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!] Message-ID: <19991212125901.A38377@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912111255220.80600-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:57:04PM -0800 References: <19991211181115.A36357@myhakas.matti.ee> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912111255220.80600-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:57:04PM -0800, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> 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. Mhm, now I remember the discussion in -current list some time ago. It can be, yes, but I need to follow the logs to say for sure. About month ago the messages appeared several times per day, not per week. Thank you refreshing my memory :-) -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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