From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 3 19:30:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05654 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gaylord.async.vt.edu (gaylord.async.vt.edu [128.173.18.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05649 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gaylord@gaylord.async.vt.edu) Received: (from gaylord@localhost) by gaylord.async.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA02779; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:29:29 -0500 (EST) From: Clark Gaylord Message-Id: <199811040329.WAA02779@gaylord.async.vt.edu> Subject: Re: has this been fixed? In-Reply-To: <199811040234.KAA24822@public.bta.net.cn> from Michael Robinson at "Nov 4, 98 10:34:52 am" To: robinson@public.bta.net.cn (Michael Robinson) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:29:28 -0500 (EST) Cc: perl@netmug.org, tom@uniserve.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Tom 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 IDE standard? You are funny. Let me guess, that's published on www.snakeoil.com, right? Clark -- Clark K. Gaylord Blacksburg, Virginia USA cgaylord@vt.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message