Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:05:03 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Alexander Frank <s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au> To: freebsd@theprisoner.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE TIMEOUTS and other MISC problems Message-ID: <199809080505.PAA12753@dropbear.cse.rmit.EDU.AU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980907185934.25735E-100000@theprisoner.net> (message from FreeBSD on Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:39:02 -0700 (PDT))
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Hi, > First, if the drives partition have no been accessed in a while > (minutes/hours), it takes about 5 seconds to get an access performed. For > instance, /saved/system1/ has not been accessed, and an "ls > /saved/system1/log.4" would hang for quite awhile, and finally report its > results. > > My first assumption is that it has to do with the timeout messages I've > been getting in my syslog. Do you have anything like power management on your system? Perhaps your bios is doing some kind of power management, and shutting your drive down? (I know this happens on some of my systems with "other" O/S's installed) -- | Tony Frank | Mobile: +61-412-481-029 | | 4th Year Computer Systems Engineering | Fax: +61-3-9720-4672 | | RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Email: s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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