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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:12:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: jadeite <jadeite@light.pomona.edu>
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Subject: Re: error message
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, jadeite wrote:

> 	what does this mean and is it serious?
> 
> Nov 16 03:32:16 light /kernel: wd1s1f: soft ecc reading fsbn 65585 of
> 65584-65595 (wd1s1 bn 2077937; cn 515 tn 23 sn 8)wd1: status
> 5c<seekdone,drq,ecc_cor> error 40<uncorr>

It indicates that there was an error reading disk wd1.  Unless you get
this a lot I would ignore it.  

> 	it was in bold.

Bold messages are from the kernel as opposed to a program using syslog().

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major