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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
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Subject: Re: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
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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                               
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