Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:50:50 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass) Cc: hdalog@zipnet.net, davidg@Root.COM, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install Message-ID: <199604010120.KAA01915@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9602308282.AA828250915@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "Brett Glass" at Mar 30, 96 10:38:27 pm
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Brett Glass stands accused of saying: > > The heads still retract, though. It'd be good to turn power management off, > and turn off prefetches at the same time. If Linux can do it, surely > FreeBSD can. The two are seperate issues. As I've already mentioned, turning prefetch off in the kernel may be _too_late_. You should do it in the BIOS. Note that there are some interesting comments in the ATA spec I was referring to regarding power-saving modes. Basically, the "lowest" a drive is allowed to go without an explicit command should still respond, as per normal, to commands, however response may be delayed by up to 30 seconds. If your drive is responding with an error condition (indicating that it's gone into 'sleep' mode), it is violating the spec. > --Brett > > P.S. -- Am still trying to diagnose that arplookup failure. Why might the > system be attempting to do an ARP on a system that isn't even on the local > net? And that isn't named anywhere in the network configuration files? You may have routed running; turn it off in /etc/sysconfig. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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