From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 26 05:03:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA28822 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 05:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA28816 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 05:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0ztsIJ-0007D9-00; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:54:07 +0000 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:54:07 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: mel kravitz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0:interrupt timeout message Message-ID: <19981226115407.A27713@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <36846066.133237AF@switchpwr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <36846066.133237AF@switchpwr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mel kravitz wrote: > hello, > getting the following message... > switch1 kernel log messages: > > wd0: interrupt timeout: > > wd0: status 50 error 1 > is this about to be the end of ide drive? Not necessarily, that is often caused by BIOS power saving having IDE drives spin down. Disable that is possible. From what I've heard, it saves very little power and wears the disks out. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message