From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 17:58:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E3015018 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port7.annex8.radix.net (port7.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.7]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA19477; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:56:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:56:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wdtimeout() DMA status 4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why is it? I told my bios to not do that. Is FreeBSD doing something? Thanks, ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: > > > 3.1-stable > > Dell Latitute 266CPi laptop > > > > I've been getting the messege: > > wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58 error 4) > > wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4 > > > > repeated every few minutes. What does this mean? > > Your hard disk spun down. FreeBSD doesn't like that. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message