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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:10:55 +0100
From:      Godwin Stewart <gstewart@bonivet.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean?
Message-ID:  <20041110001055.5548c227.gstewart@bonivet.net>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV13Gz1iD0CWl00009b23@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY2-DAV13Gz1iD0CWl00009b23@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:01:41 -0800, "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I just upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE a few days ago. This morning this line got 
> into my system log file:
> Nov  9 06:14:03 www kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen
> but timeout fired LBA=2491143
> 
> I've never seen this message before. Can someone please explain what it 
> means? With Thanks,

Looks like you may have a hard disk about to die. I'd start doing backups if
I were you and then consider replacing the HD.

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