From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 05:35:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA04221 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:35:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA04216 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.053 #1) id 0zif6E-0000Zj-00; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:35:19 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA02624; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:34:47 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08643; Wed, 25 Nov 98 13:34:46 GMT Message-Id: <365C0748.1B7E4FC6@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:34:00 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: Is this going bad? References: <199811251311.HAA10907@horton.iaces.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul T. Root wrote: > > My guess is that the disk is spun down, and it's not coming back up gracefully, > all the time. > Have you checked (& disabled) the Power Management/Energy Saving functions in the BIOS? -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message