Re: Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts

2008-11-07 Thread Volker Theile
I can confirm that. Many FreeNAS users had problems with their HDDs (e.g. with APM, awake disks to access them after they felt to sleep). Increasing timeouts solves the problem in most cases. I think increasing the value BUT allowing the user to set it to a preferred value via sysctrl would be

Re: Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and > 2GB RAM

2008-06-06 Thread Volker Theile
Hello, i can confirm that the bug fix submitted with PR 108215 solves the reboot problem when using mfsroot images in FreeBSD 6.3. I will test it also on FreeBSD 7.0, but i assume that it will fix it there too. Many users using FreeNAS reporting this reboot problem on their machines with RAM >