Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:37:24 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: vallo@solaris.matti.ee Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), ntakpe@ffab.tide.ti.com (Jean Louis Ntakpe), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata: lost disk contact errors [was: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!] Message-ID: <199912130737.IAA27680@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19991212125901.A38377@myhakas.matti.ee> from Vallo Kallaste at "Dec 12, 1999 12:59:01 pm"
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It seems Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:57:04PM -0800, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote: > > > > I'm getting the "lost disk contact" messages every now and then, but > > > only on our mp3 machine with PIIX3 controller and IBM UDMA/66 disk. It's > > > an PPro machine with Intel mobo. Can it be related to newer IBM disks? > > > > Depends on what 'now and then' is. The Deskstar series of drives was not > > intended to run 24/7, and therefore shut themselves down every week to > > clean the heads. > > Mhm, now I remember the discussion in -current list some time ago. It > can be, yes, but I need to follow the logs to say for sure. About month > ago the messages appeared several times per day, not per week. > Thank you refreshing my memory :-) Well, I use alot of IBM's and I've newer seen them do this... Have you tried upping the timeout in ata-disk.c about line 426 to say 10s and see if it changes behavior ?? -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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