From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 15:17:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D6D1506C for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:17:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA43307; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:46:41 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:46:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Walter Brameld Cc: Jonathan Chen , Pat Wendorf , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Kernel Message Message-ID: <20000126094640.A43103@freebie.lemis.com> References: <388DA2F9.99EEC665@beholder.ods.org> <20000126084921.A5764@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> <388E2AAE.1C8E30D3@twave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <388E2AAE.1C8E30D3@twave.net> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 17:58:54 -0500, Walter Brameld wrote: > Jonathan Chen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:19:53AM -0500, Pat Wendorf wrote: >> >>> I noticed the following message in a log, is this something to worry >>> about? >>> >>> wd0: interrupt timeout (status 50 error 0) >>> wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 1 >> >> Last time I got heaps of these, my drive died a couple of days later. > > I would take that to be a definite "yes". No, that's a definite "maybe". Some drives do this from time to time. It's also possible that it's the disk controller. It's not a good sign, but many drives continue for years with just a sporadic interrupt timeout. If you get a lot of them, though, you're in trouble (you'll notice things hanging waiting for the transfers to complete). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message