On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:43:00PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> 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?

The drive spins up to write something ... make sure you don't have anything
that writes to a file every minutes.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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