ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Knoll
I added a power down timer on one of my harddrives, and started getting READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA timeouts. Is it possible these are occuring becuase the drive is spun down and FreeBSD isn't waiting long enough for it to spin up? Everything else seems to be working. If that is the problem, is it

Re: ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

2006-11-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 13 November 2006 9:57 am, Michael Knoll wrote: I added a power down timer on one of my harddrives, and started getting READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA timeouts. Is it possible these are occuring becuase the drive is spun down and FreeBSD isn't waiting long enough for it to spin up?