Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:46:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>, Pat Wendorf <beholder@beholder.ods.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Kernel Message Message-ID: <20000126094640.A43103@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <388E2AAE.1C8E30D3@twave.net> References: <388DA2F9.99EEC665@beholder.ods.org> <20000126084921.A5764@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> <388E2AAE.1C8E30D3@twave.net>
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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<rdy,seekdone> error 0) >>> wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 1<active> >> >> 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
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