From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 28 00:25:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA07205 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com (mail.trw.dk [195.8.133.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA07198 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:25:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.dk.tfs.com [140.145.230.252]) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA27279; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:24:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA00290; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:33:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Babumpabajard cc: cgull+usenet-877838850@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood), hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrive powerdowns In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:42:52 EST." <3.0.32.19971027183611.00982930@lafcol.lafayette.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:33:06 +0100 Message-ID: <288.878023986@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <3.0.32.19971027183611.00982930@lafcol.lafayette.edu>, Babumpabajard writes: >At 12:09 AM 10/26/97 -0400, you wrote: >>Mike Smith writes: >> > The wd driver times the operation out and retries it. AFAIR most >> > operations are tried at least 3 times before giving up. >> >>And in -current, the driver now waits longer (10s) before the first >>retry, eliminating those nattering errors. > >I can not figure out why my HD is spinning up so frequently. I set the >time down to 1 minute, with no one logged in, only process other than >defualt but sshd, and the system still reads. There's 48megs of RAM, so I >can't immagine it needs to swap. > >Is there a way to determine what is using my harddrive? You have set the update timer, right ? printout the blocknumber that fails because of the drive sleeping, learn about UFS on-disk-structures and work your way backwards... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."