From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 8 00:08:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13369 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles249.castles.com [208.214.165.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13356 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15436; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809080714.AAA15436@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: FreeBSD cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE TIMEOUTS and other MISC problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Sep 1998 19:39:02 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:14:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 error 1 > > 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