Re: Resume on T41

[George Michaelson <ggm%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:42:27 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:59:10AM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:13:07AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
>>>> Is this soft error something to be worried about?
>>>
>>> No, it isn't.
>>
>> FYI, I started seeing that very recently on my T61 also. Would be nice
>> to understand why :)
> 
> I've seen it with various operating systems over time when explicitly
> spinning down a disk. It happens on the first read when the disk is
> powered up, no idea why.
> 
> Joerg

Those of us old enough to remember RL-02 removable 10meg packs will 
recall that BSD 4.[123] didn't initialize the heads silently, and after 
first insertion of the single platter disk (its a 14" behemoth) it always 
failed the first mount request, until it had retried and found the hard-
notch start segment..

http://www.pdp11.co.uk/profiles/by-id/86/

-G