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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com>
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Subject: Re: diagnosis of kernel msg. regarding HDD.
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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, James A. Mutter wrote:

> 
> Does this mean it's time contact Western Digital and get a new drive?
> 
> wd0s1c: reverting to PIO mode while writing to fsbn 1301569 of
> 1301569-1301576 (status 51 <ready,seekdone,err> error
> 84<badblk,abort>)
     ^^^^^^ ?

> Is this FreeBSD's way of warning me that the drive is dying?

There was a problem running in DMA mode, and it's trying to revert to a
slower mode.  Perhaps your system can't quite take the bandwidth?

I get more worried with MEDIUM ERRORs.

Doug White                               
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