From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 4 17:07:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:07:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.wolf.com (ns1.wolf.com [207.137.58.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25321 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:07:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@ns1.wolf.com) From: dan@ns1.wolf.com Received: (from dan@localhost) by ns1.wolf.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA14031; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:07:11 -0800 Message-ID: <19990204170711.A13995@ns.wolf.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:07:11 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: pirate@wolf.com Subject: Re: "wd0: interrupt timeout:" meaning? References: <199902050052.QAA13987@ns1.wolf.com> <19990205112635.J1179@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <19990205112635.J1179@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:26:35AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't think this means that your drive is dying. The status is > correct; about the only obvious thing is that it's asserting drq, a > DMA request. 2.2.8 doesn't support DMA; I see two possibilities: > > 1. The BIOS is setting the drive up to run in DMA mode, and things > aren't working so well because the system doesn't handle it. > > 2. The 'dma' status is noise, and your IDE controller has missed an > interrupt. > > How often does this happen? Does the drive work at all? Has it ever > worked? Can you specify DMA mode in your BIOS? It just started happening today, and has only happened a couple of times. The drive appears to still be working. I get a little paranoid about this system, as it's in nothern CA and I'm in southern CA, about 500 miles away. Since I'm hosting a lot of virtual web domains on this machine, it's super crucial that it run reliably. I just put this box on line last week, replacing a Pentium 150 with 128 MB RAM running FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP-9808something. I don't remember whether the BIOS supports DMA mode - next time I'm in NorCal working on the beasty I'll check it out. It sounds like I need to keep watching the logs, and if I see this message show up more often I'll get worried about it; if not, then I'll remain cool and trust that it's not about to fall over. Thanks for the explanation. It helps calm my nerves a bunch. Dan Mahoney dan@wolf.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message