From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 11:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA18556 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:40:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA18464 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA21735; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Charlie ROOT cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: wd0 error. Prob HW-Failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Charlie ROOT wrote: > Hi, > recently I get from my toshiba-disk TOSHIBA MK3205MAV (inside notebook): > wd0: interrupt timeout: > wd0: status 58 error 0 > wd0: interrupt timeout: > wd0: status 50 error 1 > > I suspect bad block('s). > Is there something like a bad-block-management for SCSI-disks? Some disks do have that. > Are there tools under FreeBSD to check the disk and read the IDE-infos (if any). It's manufacturer-speific. Since this is a laptop, try disabling IDE spindown in your BIOS's power management setup. It looks like our disk is spinning down and FreeBSD doesn't like that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major