From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 16:29:24 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 A02E615AD8 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port4.annex8.radix.net (port4.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.4]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA27429; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:03:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:03:37 -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 I'm still getting these messages even though I have HD spin downs disabled. I don't even let the machine sit long enough for it to spin down. I'm sometimes are forced to reboot. I am also getting errors like: wd0: wdunwedge failed (status 58 error 0) wd0: wdunwedge failed (status 58 error 50) wd0s1a: wdstart: timeout waiting for DRQ writing fsbn 65 of 64-79 (wd0s1 bn 65; cn 0 tn 1 sn 2) (status 50 error 4) .... Is my harddrive bad? Thanks, 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