From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 10 12:38:51 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 64EE515460 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:38:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA75060 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:38:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:38:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58 error 1) In-Reply-To: <199908100105.DAA08856@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> 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 Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Doug wrote in list.freebsd-current: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > > > FWIW - I enabled APM over the weekend, configuring drives to > > > spin down when not used for a good period of time. I get the > > > message you list below, alternately with status 50 and 58, any > > > time a drive needs to spin up. > > > > Thanks for the response. FWIW I have no apm enabled and these > > drives don't have a chance to spin down since they're always busy when > > under load. > > Do those drives happen to be IBM DeskStar drives? > They spin down automatically when they have not been turned > off for about a week, in order to clean the heads. > It's a feature. You've got to be kidding. That makes them totally useless for server operation -- at some random time every week, down goes your server for a few minutes. :( Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message