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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Is this IDE drive dying ?
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Khetan Gajjar wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> My mail server is bringing up these entries in the syslog. Is it
> something to worry about ?
> 
> It's running 2.2.5-RELEASE, and disk structure looks like
> /dev/wd0a       49231    13794    31499    30%    /
> /dev/wd0s1f    434879   283829   116260    71%    /usr
> /dev/wd0s1e     98479    12439    78162    14%    /var
> 
> Jan 27 16:15:01 link /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout:
> Jan 27 16:15:01 link /kernel: wd0: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 4<abort>
> Jan 27 16:37:17 link /kernel: wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command writing fsbn 65680 of 65680-65695 (wd0 bn 270480; cn 134 tn 5 sn 21)wd0: status 10<seekdone> error 1<no_dam>
> Jan 27 16:38:13 link /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout:
> Jan 27 16:38:13 link /kernel: wd0: status 7e<rdy,wrtflt,seekdone,drq,ecc_cor,index> error 1<no_dam>
> Jan 24 20:02:31 link /kernel: wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting for DRQ writing fsbn 65632 of 65632-65647 (wd0 bn 270432; cn 134 tn 4 sn 36)wd0: status 51<rdy,seekdone,err> error 4<abort>
> Jan 24 20:02:31 link /kernel: wd0a: reverting to non-multi sector mode writing fsbn 65632 of 65632-65647 (wd0 bn 270432; cn 134 tn 4 sn 36)wd0: status 51<rdy,seekdone,err> error 4<abort>

Your hard drive and controller need to have a little talk, at least.  I'd
start running backups.  Also check the ide cable.  

The timeouts are very disturbing.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major