ataidle - causing apache & cvs timeouts

[Kris Kennaway]

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