Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:40:18 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0 interrupt timeout Message-ID: <19971206114018.41854@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.90.971206201515.28502A-100000@bragg>; from Kris Kennaway on Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 08:25:32PM %2B1030 References: <Pine.OSF.3.90.971206201515.28502A-100000@bragg>
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Kris Kennaway writes:
>
> For the past several days (the first time being on Dec 2 as shown) I've been
> seeing the following messages popping up:
[...]
> 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).
The timeout is a warning when the disk doesn't respond to commands
right away -- you usually don't see this on laptops since 2.5" disks
usually spin up faster.
Shouldn't be too harmful.
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
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