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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Andrew wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I get the following mesage when trying to boot:
> 
> wd1: interrupt timeout:
> wd1:status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0
> wd1: interrupt timeout
> wd1: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>
> 
> Presumably this means my second IDE drive is timing out...in what way? Is
> this a cable problem? I just got a new cable a few days ago althought the
> errors didnt start until today.

Do you have IDE spindown enabled?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major