Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:13:38 -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.4.10.9904111612250.92596-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904111557460.92596-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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Geez, now I just rebooted the laptop and it says there's no boot sector on hard disk. This is kind of weird. Thanks again, ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: > 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<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 0) > wd0: wdunwedge failed (status 58<rdy,seekdone> error 50<uncorr,no_id>) > wd0s1a: wdstart: timeout waiting for DRQ writing fsbn 65 of 64-79 (wd0s1 > bn 65; cn 0 tn 1 sn 2) (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 4<abort>) > > .... > > 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<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 > > 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
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