From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 18 13: 3: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relativity.student.utwente.nl (wit389306.student.utwente.nl [130.89.234.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A0D1506A for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:02:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl) Received: by relativity.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 81EAC1E2A; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:02:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:02:58 +0100 From: "Dave J. Boers" To: Soren Schmidt Cc: "Richard Seaman, Jr." , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) Message-ID: <19991218220258.B35095@relativity.student.utwente.nl> Reply-To: djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl References: <19991217152300.C320@tar.com> <199912181944.UAA27989@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912181944.UAA27989@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > There is no way to see if the disk was in suspend mode, you can > give it a command and se how long it takes before it comes back :) > > The problem here is that it takes the command and OK's it, but it > takes the spinuptime + overhead before the answer comes, and then > the driver already timed out. I am under the impression that the drive does not need to do ADM if it is shutdown once every six days. So can't we go with phk's solution: make a cron job that shuts down and powers up the drive once every six days? Regards, Dave. -- God, root, what's the difference? djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message