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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