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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.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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