Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Soren Schmidt writes:
>It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
>
>Yup, sounds like the problem some are seing, now I wonder why I
>havn't seen it on any of the IBM disks I've access to, hmm...
>
>It apparantly can't be disabled, but I'll try to figure out if
>I can detect when the drive is in this mode, or put it in
>standby mode and back again when there is nothing else to do,
>that should reset the timer...

Probably the best thing to do would be to write a "atamaint" program
and schedule a cronjob to run it at 05:00 every morning or something.

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