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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:28:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Willem van den Bosch <willem@OntheNet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Hard disc problem??
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On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Willem van den Bosch wrote:

> As a newcomer to UNIX and FreeBSD, I was hoping some one might be able to
> explain the folowing error messages and what to do about them? The disc is
> 6 months old, is it about to disintegrate:-(
> 
> > Jan 17 02:06:28 abacus /kernel: wd1: interrupt timeout:
> > Jan 17 02:06:29 abacus /kernel: wd1: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error
> 40<uncorr>
> > Jan 17 02:06:29 abacus /kernel: wd1s1e: soft error reading fsbn 917585 of
> 917584-917599 (wd1s1 bn 1019985; cn 63 tn 125 sn 15)wd1: status
> 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>
> > Jan 17 02:06:29 abacus /kernel: wd1s1e: soft error reading fsbn 917585 of
> 917584-917599 (wd1s1 bn 1019985; cn 63 tn 125 sn 15)wd1: status
> 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>

I don't know if we answered this already, but yes, this disk is
self-destructing.  Make a backup and replace it.

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