Subject: Re: apm (Re: Anyone running NetBSD on an IBM ThinkPad [A|T]21?)
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@xxx.research.att.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/26/2001 21:54:31
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:16:21PM -0500, Chuck Cranor wrote:
> In article <20010123213603.A296@antioche.eu.org>,
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
> >Do you get one timeout when the disk powers up, and many ?
> 
> it seems to happen when the drives spins up, but not all 
> the time.  each time it happens the ide mode downgrades until
> it reaches PIO 4 (yuck).
> 
> 
> but on a related note, i tried Ken's suggestion of changing from:
> 
> 	atactl wd0 setidle 5
> to
>         atactl wd0 setstandby 5
> 
> and all my errors have gone away.   the main reason i used setidle
> was /usr/share/examples/apm/script uses it.
> 
> it isn't clear to me if that means we should just forget about
> the problems with setidle or not?

Surely not, but I don't really have the time to work on this for now,
and as we have several workaround possible ... 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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