Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:23:08 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: miha@ghuug.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA Message-ID: <xzp8yafsvwz.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200410091617.26794.miha@ghuug.org> (Mikhail P.'s message of "Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:17:26 %2B0000") References: <200410081937.15068.miha@ghuug.org> <xzpfz4ondep.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200410091617.26794.miha@ghuug.org>
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"Mikhail P." <miha@ghuug.org> writes: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:01, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > A lot of them, or just one or two? Some ATA drives will spin down at > > regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll get a harmless timeout if > > you try to write to the disk while it's doing that. > Unfortunately, all the drives (so far - four 200GB drives). I meant "a lot of timeouts", not "a lot of drives". If you only get one or two timeouts per drive at regular intervals (say, once a month), they're just recalibrating and there's nothing to worry about. BTW, are you using ataidle or anything similar? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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