Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:13:43 +0900 From: "J. Sean Bennett" <sean@pasebo.nnet.ne.jp> To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>, "Bruce Albrecht" <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: <scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Odd problems with -current... Message-ID: <00b901bdc6ce$03be2ec0$9cc6e5ca@J.SeanBennett>
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Does it only happen when the drive has been inactive for awhile?? It could
just be an energy saving mode of the drive, or your bios. Mine powers down
if I leave the system on but inactive for awhile, and then spins up as I
start working again.
Sean
sean@mail.nnet.ne.jp
-----Original Message-----
From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG <scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>; current@FreeBSD.ORG
<current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: August 12, 1998 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Odd problems with -current...
>On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
>
>> The Hermit Hacker writes:
>> > I'm trying to debug a problem that I'm having on my home machine
>> > that has me totally baffled, and am hoping someone here can "show me
the
>> > way"...
>> >
>> > I just put in a 2gig Seagate SCSI drive on my system, to replace a
>> > 2gig IDE drive, and after running for awhile, it *seems* that the
drive is
>> > powering down, cause when I try to access something on that drive
after
>> > leaving for a period of time, you can hear it power back up again.
>>
>> Are you sure that it's not powering down because it's overheating?
>> I've got a couple of Hawk drives that shut down until I added extra fans.
>
>I'm not certain of anything right now, but I've got a larger email to send
>later tonight with, what I hope, is alot more detail...
>
>Marc G. Fournier
>Systems Administrator @ hub.org
>primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary:
scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
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