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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: disk problem
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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Arthur Alacar wrote:

> > >   wd1: interrupt timeout:
> > >   wd1: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0
> > 
> > Do you have IDE spindown enabled?
> 
> what's this spindown?

Most modern motherboards support turning the hard disks off after a
specified amount of time.  When the disk is accessed the disk is turned
back on.  This takes too long for FreeBSD and will spit out that error
message.

> > It's harmless unless you get these frequently, with other more serious
> > errors.
> 
> i often got such message..

Perhaps one of your cables is going down or wd1 takes too long to respond.

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