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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:28:03 -0200 (EDT)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
To:        regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld)
Cc:        kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wd0 interrupt timeout
Message-ID:  <199712071828.QAA18606@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk> from Philippe Regnauld at "Dec 6, 97 11:40:18 am"

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#define quoting(Philippe Regnauld)
// Kris Kennaway writes:
// > 
// > For the past several days (the first time being on Dec 2 as shown) I've been 
// > seeing the following messages popping up:
// 
// 	[...]
// 
// > The system will completely hang for several seconds - no process 
// > activity, no disk activity, nothing - then the drive in question makes 
// > the "powering up" sound it does when I first power up the machine, the 
// > error appears on the console and activity resumes.
// 
// 	You have auto-spindown / APM enable in the BIOS, and your
// 	disk spins down when it's been idle for some time (definable).

What if I have this on a machine without APM support (a very old 486) ?

I've never had a fatal error, but always have these warnings.

					Jonny

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