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From: Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca>
To: d_f0rce <d_f0rce@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: IDE Problems with 3.4 Release
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Hi,

I have experienced the same thing on my 3.4 STABLE system.  I looked in
the mailing list archives and it seems that these messages could mean the
hard drive is dying.  My hard drive ( Quantum FireBall KA 9.1GB ) did die
shortly after I saw these messages.  Since then I have experienced another
one of these hard drives dying and yesterday I saw the same messages on
another system I have with the same hard drive. I think there must have
been a bad batch of FireBalls.  

My advice is to backup anything you don't want to lose because your hard
drive could be on its last legs.


Theo

On Wed, 3 May 2000, d_f0rce wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone tell me what these messages mean
> and if I've got to worry about them?
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> May  3 16:46:48 lisa /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout (status
> 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 0)
> May  3 16:46:48 lisa /kernel: wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
> May  3 16:47:33 lisa /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout (status
> 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>)
> May  3 16:47:33 lisa /kernel: wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
> May  3 16:47:53 lisa /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout (status
> 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>)
> May  3 16:47:53 lisa /kernel: wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
> May  3 16:48:06 lisa /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout (status
> 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>)
> May  3 16:48:06 lisa /kernel: wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
> May  3 16:48:28 lisa /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout (status
> 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>)
> May  3 16:48:28 lisa /kernel: wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
> May  3 16:49:03 lisa /kernel: wd0: Last time I say: interrupt timeout.
> Probably a portable PC. (status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1
> <no_dam>)
> May  3 16:49:04 lisa /kernel: wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> I'm using
> FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Mon Apr 10 10:41:25 CEST 2000
> on a Gigabyte 586DX Board with two Pentium 200 MMX
> processors. I'm booting from my SCSI harddrive and
> I have three IBM IDE disks on which I store all my
> data. It seems that my data on the IDE drives is
> ok but I have to be absolutely sure no to loose any.
> 
> I didn't upgrade to 4.0 until now because I heard
> that 4.0 has many problems with IDE drives. Besides
> upgrading always takes a long time to get the system
> back in shape again.
> 
> 
> Please answer to me directly, has I'm not on the list.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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