Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wdtimeout() DMA status 4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904121056430.3957-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904092055300.756-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: > Why is it? I told my bios to not do that. Is FreeBSD doing something? Not that I know of. If you compile a kerne with APM, it'll explicitly ask the BIOS not to spin dow the hard disk. It could also mean your disk is dying... > 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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