Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:58:56 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Sakari Jalovaara <sja@tekla.fi> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New SoftUpdates test kit Message-ID: <199802252328.JAA14540@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:47:34 %2B0200." <9802251447.AA01437@poveri.tekla.fi>
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> > this is not always true, this can also happen if the disk has spun down due > > to power managment... > Seconded. Before rushing to get replacement IDE drives, try to check > for spindown. Stop in BIOS setup (or whatever) before booting / after > halt and wait and listen if the drive goes silent. Takes 15 minutes > for me; YMMV. Hmm.. only one of my drives ever does this.. Its the damaged one =) It shuts down after about 5 minutes of idleness :-/ > I haven't had crashes or anything due to spindown; spin-up just > freezes FreeBSD solid for a couple of seconds (no mouse or keyboard > response.) I've just sort of supposed it is mostly harmless... It doesn't freeze it under current, it blocks disk access instead.. (much better IMHO :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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