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 Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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