Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:27:43 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Michael Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrive powerdowns Message-ID: <199710241357.XAA00526@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Oct 1997 08:58:51 -0400." <3.0.32.19971024085058.00976670@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
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> >Only if the drive takes longer to spin up than the FreeBSD driver is > >willing to wait. In your case, it looks like it'll be OK. > > Isn't a timeout when the system is tired of waiting? Will it retry and > timeout again? How long is FreeBSD willing to wait? The wd driver times the operation out and retries it. AFAIR most operations are tried at least 3 times before giving up. mike
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