On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:53:36AM +0200, Mailing list wrote:
> Sorry by my poor english.
> 
> Can be an advise of a malfunction of phisicall disk ?
> May I change this hard disk quickly ?
> 
> Oct 19 00:47:25 trastero /netbsd:       type: ata tc_bcount: 65536
> tc_skip: 0
> Oct 19 00:47:25 trastero /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: device timeout,
> c_bcount=65536, c_skip0
> Oct 19 00:47:25 trastero /netbsd: wd0a: device timeout reading fsbn 8128
> of 8128-8255 (wd0 bn 422416; cn 419 tn 1 sn 1), retrying
> Oct 19 00:47:25 trastero /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)

Does the drive make strange noises when it timeouts and recover ?
Do you have some kind of powersave feature enabled on this drive which
would put it in standby or sleep mode (some desktop PCs have this in
BIOS) ? This sleep mode the drive has to be reset to wake up. But the
kernel has no way to know that the drive is in sleep, so it tries a command,
the command times out and the driver issues a reset.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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