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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Arthur Alacar <art@adn.edu.ph>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970807111730.252J-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970805185213.3621A-100000@pili.adn.edu.ph>

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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Arthur Alacar wrote:

> > >   wd1: interrupt timeout:
> > >   wd1: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0
> > 
> > Do you have IDE spindown enabled?
> 
> what's this spindown?

Most modern motherboards support turning the hard disks off after a
specified amount of time.  When the disk is accessed the disk is turned
back on.  This takes too long for FreeBSD and will spit out that error
message.

> > It's harmless unless you get these frequently, with other more serious
> > errors.
> 
> i often got such message..

Perhaps one of your cables is going down or wd1 takes too long to respond.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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