From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 9 21:25:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA12987 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA12981 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA05220; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:24:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Ian Pallfreeman cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wdx interrupt timeouts In-Reply-To: <199704081502.QAA11310@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Ian Pallfreeman wrote: > I've been seeing messages similar to: > > Apr 8 15:07:54 lurch /kernel: wd3: interrupt timeout: > Apr 8 15:07:54 lurch /kernel: wd3: status 58 error 0 > Apr 8 15:46:05 lurch /kernel: wd3: interrupt timeout: > Apr 8 15:46:05 lurch /kernel: wd3: status 50 error 1 > > for some time on my home P200 with second-hand IBM disks, and assumed that it > was simply the disks being slightly naughty. However, this machine (lurch) is > a P-Pro 200 with two brand-new 3.8Gb Quantum Fireballs. Do you have IDE spindown enabled? That's what it looks like happened-- wd3 spun down and the system tried to poke it, and it took a little too long to come back to ready. Nothing to worry about. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major