From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 10 14:28: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE2A154B5 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:28:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA55824; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:27:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199908102127.XAA55824@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58 error 1) In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Aug 10, 1999 12:38: 2 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:27:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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): , 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