From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 25 06:48:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26695 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marathon.tekla.fi (marathon.tekla.fi [192.98.7.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26689 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sja@tekla.fi) Received: from poveri.tekla.fi (poveri.tekla.fi [192.98.7.19]) by marathon.tekla.fi (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA23137 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:47:34 +0200 From: Sakari Jalovaara Received: by poveri.tekla.fi; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/20Aug96-0557PM) id AA01437; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:47:34 +0200 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:47:34 +0200 Message-Id: <9802251447.AA01437@poveri.tekla.fi> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New SoftUpdates test kit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some old mail: >>> syncing disks... wd0: interrupt timeout: >>> wd0: status 58 error 0 >> >> Your disk is going bad. Replace it. > > this is not always true, this can also happen if the disk has spun down due > to power managment... Seconded. Before rushing to get replacement IDE drives, try to check for spindown. Stop in BIOS setup (or whatever) before booting / after halt and wait and listen if the drive goes silent. Takes 15 minutes for me; YMMV. I see spindown on a second IDE drive; I guess the disk with rootfs is never idle long enough. Not a laptop or anything; a regular newish IDE drive (6G Fireball). I haven't changed any settings on the drive or anything; maybe auto-spindown is default on IDE nowadays? I haven't had crashes or anything due to spindown; spin-up just freezes FreeBSD solid for a couple of seconds (no mouse or keyboard response.) I've just sort of supposed it is mostly harmless... ++sja To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message