Re: Mounting a powered-down HDD renders system unusable

2005-04-06 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
Mike Harding wrote: On a 5.4-pre system as of the last few days, If I mount a spun down hard disk (one I am using only for backup): This does not answer your question, but may help you solve the problem. Try detaching the disk after you are done using it, and attaching it again before you mount it

Mounting a powered-down HDD renders system unusable

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Harding
On a 5.4-pre system as of the last few days, If I mount a spun down hard disk (one I am using only for backup): # mount /backup/usr I get ad1: TIMEOUT _ READ DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=7340273 ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration ad1: WARNING - removed from configuration at0-slave: F