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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:25:11 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)
Message-ID:  <199912160825.JAA71207@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19991216091950.B8469@relativity.student.utwente.nl> from "Dave J. Boers" at "Dec 16, 1999 09:19:50 am"

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It seems Dave J. Boers wrote:
> 
> I am still having "disc contact lost messages" regularly too. I've been
> posting about them on several occasions some time ago.  I haven't been able
> to pinn it down, however. IF they occur, they occur somewhere between 9:15
> and 9:20 a.m. OR p.m. But they don't always. This used to be 10:15, but
> that changed _some weeks after_ the change of daylight saving time. I can't
> seem to relate it to anything. It is unlikely that it's a power glitch,
> because the system has been displaying the problem with two different
> UPS's. 
> 
> The machine is running current current's which are regularly updated. It's
> an ABIT BP6 and the disk causing problems is a WD 7200 RPM 18,2 Gb disk
> running UDMA33. It's the only IDE disk in the system; the other disks are
> all SCSI. The system is running 24/7. Other details were posted earlier. 

There is this thing with the IBM's doing some headcleaning stuff once
a day/week, but I've never seen any of my IBM's do that (I got plenty
of them). I'll try to get more info on that from IBM...

-Søren


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