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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:56:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904092055300.756-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091638500.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Why is it?  I told my bios to not do that.  Is FreeBSD doing something?

Thanks,

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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<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 4<abort>)
> > 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                               
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> 
> 



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