From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 19:57:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15156 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost2.cac.washington.edu (mailhost2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15151 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:57:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmorrisn@u.washington.edu) Received: from u.washington.edu (D-128-95-141-86.dhcp.washington.edu [128.95.141.86]) by mailhost2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id TAA05196; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:57:28 -0800 Message-ID: <364BAEF1.F99866E3@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:00:49 -0800 From: Don Morrison X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: so-called "spindown" problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Actually, it appears that the disk controller is loosing the DMA channel. > Perhaps you have two devices sharing a DMA channel, like a soundcard? > I do have an old sb awe-32 installed, how (where) can I check to see if this is what's causing the problem? Will the boot up configuration editor shed some light on this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message