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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 10:01:16 -0400
From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Subject: Re: wd0 and sio0 messages
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Keith Beattie[SFSU Student] wrote:
> 
> Anybody know what these might mean?
> 
> --- from /var/log/messages ---
> Aug  4 16:10:27 viv /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout:
> Aug  4 16:10:32 viv /kernel: wd0: status 50<seekdone> error 0
> Aug  4 16:10:32 viv /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout:
> Aug  4 16:10:32 viv /kernel: wd0: status 50<seekdone> error 1<no_dam>
> Aug  4 18:09:26 viv /kernel: sio0: 71 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 71)
> Aug  4 18:09:27 viv /kernel: sio0: 16 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 87)
> --- from /var/log/messages ---
> (the sio0 messages continue on...)
> 
> Here's what those devices look like when booting:
> 
> --- from dmesg ---
> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
> sio0: type 16450
> [...]
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 7120 AT>, multi-block-16
> wd0: 124MB (254592 sectors), 936 cyls, 16 heads, 17 S/T, 512 B/S
> --- from dmesg ---
> 
> My mouse is on sio0, (com1) and wd0 has /, /var and swap on it.  The
> wd0 messages have been poping up every once in a while since I built a
> kernel.  Yesterday, when I quit netscape 3.0b6, my whole X session,
> (mouse too) froze.  Fortunately my SLIP connection was still up so I
> could get somebody to reboot it gracefully.
> 
> I'm going to build (yet another) kernel without the "flags 0x80ff" for
> wd0 and wd1, which adds the mulit-sector transfers and 32-bit access.
> Hopefully that will fix the wd0 errors but are sio0 errors the fault
> of netscape?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Keith

I don't belive your Maxtor 7120 will support Multi-Sector transfers.
My specs are out in the truck.


-Enjoy
Gary
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