Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:00:07 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0 interrupt timeout Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.90.971206214958.27334B-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk>
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> > 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
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