Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:14:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: FreeBSD <freebsd@theprisoner.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE TIMEOUTS and other MISC problems Message-ID: <199809080714.AAA15436@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Sep 1998 19:39:02 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980907185934.25735E-100000@theprisoner.net>
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> > Hi, > > I've been noticing some "errors" for the last few months with my drives. > I am going to try to provide as much information as I can so that I don't > bother you with any stupid questions. > > > 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. > > > wd2: interrupt timeout: > > wd2: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam> > > I looked on the documentation on www.freebsd.org and searched for ide > timeouts, and found some information about a workaround for a CMD640 > timeout problem dealing with not being able to handle both channels as > once. No, this probably has to do with your disks spinning down. You may be able to turn this off in your BIOS setup. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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