From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 10:16:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23893 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23856 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #3) id 0zTqnD-0002WJ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:02:27 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:02:27 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: wd0 wdunwedge errors Message-ID: <19981015180227.A9191@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just spotted a load of errors like this in my logs ... Oct 15 08:02:10 scientia /kernel: wd0s3a: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 10400 of 10400-10527 (wd0s3 bn 10400; cn 2 tn 37 sn 5)wd0: status ff error 0 Oct 15 08:02:15 scientia /kernel: wd0: wdunwedge failed: Oct 15 08:02:15 scientia /kernel: wd0: status ff error ff Oct 15 08:02:15 scientia /kernel: wd0s3a: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 10400 of 10400-10527 (wd0s3 bn 10400; cn 2 tn 37 sn 5)wd0: status ff error ff (this was repeated at least a dozen times (except the first line which only occured once), all within 1 second) A few questions, - what is `wdunwedge'? - is this a serious problem with my disk? - what sort of thing could cause this? - should I just shut up and stop worrying? -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message