From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 6 03:30:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA09178 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 03:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA09130 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 03:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (5.65/AndrewR-930902) id AA13039; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:59:49 +1030 Received: by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA25847; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:00:08 +1030 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:00:07 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Philippe Regnauld Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0 interrupt timeout In-Reply-To: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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). This probably seems pretty obvious, and if the above is true then it would have been; the 'problems' started at about the time I enabled this to see what effect it had. However, I had thought I'd disabled it this morning - I'll have to check next time I reboot to make sure (since I've had another recurrence since rebooting). Thanks for your help. Kris