Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:27:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>) Message-ID: <199908102127.XAA55824@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908101237210.79312-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Aug 10, 1999 12:38: 2 pm"
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It seems Doug White 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. :( That can't be true, at least not for the IBM DeskStars I own, I've NEVER EVER seen them do that, one proof should be: 11:22PM up 105 days, 4:18, 1 user, load averages: 1.06, 0.94, 0.91 dmesg snippet: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-DTTA-350840>, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S And none of the other machines I have with semilar or newer IBM's have ever done this, in fact I've yet to see one of them fail in any way.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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