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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@masternet.it>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:

> 
> I often receive this message on my laptop :
> 
> wd0: interrupt timeout:
> wd0: status 58 <rdy,seekdone,drq> error 0
> 
> This happens even if the power management of the laptop is turned off and it
> isn't powered by batteries....
> 

Do you have IDE spindown on?

I'm getting a similar message from my pent with it turned on.  No damage, 
perfectly innocent (from what I can tell).

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