From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 7 10:30:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA13050 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13044 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:30:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18606; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:28:03 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199712071828.QAA18606@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: wd0 interrupt timeout In-Reply-To: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk> from Philippe Regnauld at "Dec 6, 97 11:40:18 am" To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:28:03 -0200 (EDT) Cc: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #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 -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67