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From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
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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,

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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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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