"Mikhail P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > A lot of them, or just one or two? Some ATA drives will spin down at > > regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll get a harmless timeout if > > you try to write to the disk while it's doing that. > Unfortunately, all the drives (so far - four 200GB drives).
I meant "a lot of timeouts", not "a lot of drives". If you only get one or two timeouts per drive at regular intervals (say, once a month), they're just recalibrating and there's nothing to worry about. BTW, are you using ataidle or anything similar? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"