Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:55:55 -0700 (PDT) From: FreeBSD <freebsd@theprisoner.net> To: Tony Alexander Frank <s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE TIMEOUTS and other MISC problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980908055511.25735F-100000@theprisoner.net> In-Reply-To: <199809080505.PAA12753@dropbear.cse.rmit.EDU.AU>
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Thank you Tony and Mike. I am not currently where my server is located, but I will take a look at it as soon as I am. Much appreciated. knight On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Tony Alexander Frank wrote: > Hi, > > > First, if the drives partition have no been accessed in a while > > (minutes/hours), it takes about 5 seconds to get an access performed. For > > instance, /saved/system1/ has not been accessed, and an "ls > > /saved/system1/log.4" would hang for quite awhile, and finally report its > > results. > > > > My first assumption is that it has to do with the timeout messages I've > > been getting in my syslog. > > Do you have anything like power management on your system? Perhaps your > bios is doing some kind of power management, and shutting your drive down? > > (I know this happens on some of my systems with "other" O/S's installed) > > -- > | Tony Frank | Mobile: +61-412-481-029 | > | 4th Year Computer Systems Engineering | Fax: +61-3-9720-4672 | > | RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Email: s9507886@cse.rmit.edu.au | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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