From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 25 21:10:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA15756 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from smoke.marlboro.vt.us (smoke.marlboro.vt.us [198.206.215.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA15717 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us) Received: (from cgull@localhost) by smoke.marlboro.vt.us (8.8.7/8.8.7/cgull) id AAA10046; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 00:09:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 00:09:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710260409.AAA10046@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: cgull+usenet-877838850@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood) To: Mike Smith Cc: Michael Knoll , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddrive powerdowns <199710241357.XAA00526@word.smith.net.au>:  Mike Smith writes: > The wd driver times the operation out and retries it. AFAIR most > operations are tried at least 3 times before giving up. And in -current, the driver now waits longer (10s) before the first retry, eliminating those nattering errors. --jh -- Mr. Belliveau said, "the difference was the wise, John Hood, cgull intelligent look on the face of the cow." He was @ *so* right. --Ofer Inbar smoke.marlboro.vt.us