From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 21:18:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA05989 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA05982 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA12985; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:17:42 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:17:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199607140417.WAA12985@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wd0: interrupt timeout: In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960713220150.0067aab4@masternet.it> References: <2.2.32.19960713220150.0067aab4@masternet.it> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I often receive this message on my laptop : > > wd0: interrupt timeout: > wd0: status 58 error 0 > > This happens even if the power management of the laptop is turned off and it > isn't powered by batteries.... > > What's happen ? It's an hardware problem ? I see this *very* occasionall8y on my laptop as well, especially when I beat on the disk hard. A couple of times it's completely hung the machine, but most of the time it keeps going. I suspect the disk is getting too warm and has a 'mini-hardware' failure that it recovers from. Nate