On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Doug wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> >
> > > FWIW - I enabled APM over the weekend, configuring drives to
> > > spin down when not used for a good period of time. I get the
> > > message you list below, alternately with status 50 and 58, any
> > > time a drive needs to spin up.
> >
> > Thanks for the response. FWIW I have no apm enabled and these
> > drives don't have a chance to spin down since they're always busy when
> > under load.
>
> Do those drives happen to be IBM DeskStar drives?
> They spin down automatically when they have not been turned
> off for about a week, in order to clean the heads.
> It's a feature.
You've got to be kidding. That makes them totally useless for server
operation -- at some random time every week, down goes your server for a
few minutes. :(
Doug White
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