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
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