Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:34:52 +0800 (GMT) From: Michael Robinson <robinson@public.bta.net.cn> To: perl@netmug.org, tom@uniserve.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: has this been fixed? Message-ID: <199811040234.KAA24822@public.bta.net.cn>
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Tom <tom@uniserve.com> writes: > It is hardware problem. Fix the hardware so it >responds faster, and the warning message will disapear. > >> Or is there a way to keep that from happening? What causes that error? >> An IDE timeout, right? > > You can lengthen the timeout, but this would just hide the problem. >Your drive is taking a bit too long to respond. Just out of curiousity, how did the threshold for "a bit too long" get determined? Is this defined in the IDE standard? Did someone conduct a comprehensive survey of popular drives under various error-recovery modes? Did the driver writer just pull a number out of the air? -Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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