in my notebook's /etc/apm/battery file, I run "atactl wd0 setidle 60".
Now whenever the drive spins down, I see this on the console:

pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
        type: ata tc_bcount: 0 tc_skip: 0
pciide0:0:0: intr with DRQ (st=0x58)
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1 (using DMA data
transfers)
wd0a: device timeout writing fsbn 7515682 of 7515682-7515683 (wd0 bn
11708647; cn 11615 tn 11 sn 34), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)

I could ignore the text, but the annoying thing is that this is also
logged via syslog, and for that the drive needs spinning up again.
The effect is that the drive spins up immediately after it's spun
down. 

Is there a known cure to this problem?


 - Hubert

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