From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 16 0:25:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DA215516 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA71207; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:25:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912160825.JAA71207@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) In-Reply-To: <19991216091950.B8469@relativity.student.utwente.nl> from "Dave J. Boers" at "Dec 16, 1999 09:19:50 am" To: djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:25:11 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > > I am still having "disc contact lost messages" regularly too. I've been > posting about them on several occasions some time ago. I haven't been able > to pinn it down, however. IF they occur, they occur somewhere between 9:15 > and 9:20 a.m. OR p.m. But they don't always. This used to be 10:15, but > that changed _some weeks after_ the change of daylight saving time. I can't > seem to relate it to anything. It is unlikely that it's a power glitch, > because the system has been displaying the problem with two different > UPS's. > > The machine is running current current's which are regularly updated. It's > an ABIT BP6 and the disk causing problems is a WD 7200 RPM 18,2 Gb disk > running UDMA33. It's the only IDE disk in the system; the other disks are > all SCSI. The system is running 24/7. Other details were posted earlier. There is this thing with the IBM's doing some headcleaning stuff once a day/week, but I've never seen any of my IBM's do that (I got plenty of them). I'll try to get more info on that from IBM... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message