From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 16 0:36:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0C015669 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:36:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA73900; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:36:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912160836.JAA73900@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) In-Reply-To: <199912160825.JAA71207@freebsd.dk> from Soren Schmidt at "Dec 16, 1999 09:25:11 am" To: sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:36:42 +0100 (CET) Cc: djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Soren Schmidt wrote: > 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... One more thing, do you have SMART enabled in your BIOS ??, if so turn it off, and see if that changes anything... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message