Re: ataidle - causing apache & cvs timeouts

Steve Franks wrote:
I'm running ataidle on my personal server to save electricity.
However, every time it has to spin up a drive whatever I'm accessing
(apache, cvs, etc) gives an error instead of waiting for the disk. If
I then access it again after a couple seconds once the disk is active
it works fine. Any idea how to fix this?

Relevant parts of dmesg:

ad7: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=640790375
ad7: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=640790375
ad7: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 timed out LBA=640790375

Hack the code to increase the timeout or number of retries. Evidently your drive is taking too long to spin up when powered down.

Kris

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