From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 6 02:42:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA07250 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 02:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA07240 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 02:41:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18177; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 13:18:53 +0100 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id MAA12290; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:05:40 +0100 (CET) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id LAA09196; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:40:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:40:18 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0 interrupt timeout References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 08:25:32PM +1030 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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). The timeout is a warning when the disk doesn't respond to commands right away -- you usually don't see this on laptops since 2.5" disks usually spin up faster. Shouldn't be too harmful. -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- "Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?" - S. Kelly Bootle, about Cerberus ["MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib] -