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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:02:40 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
Cc:        "Nate Williams" <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Alexander Litvin" <archer@lucky.net>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: New SoftUpdates test kit
Message-ID:  <199802222102.OAA24573@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <008401bd3fd3$a1d3bee0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
References:  <008401bd3fd3$a1d3bee0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>

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> >> Yep, me to. During "make buildworld", system also a bit busy with
> >> day-to-day work like mail/news unbatching.
> >>
> >> panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: f2585000
> >>
> >> syncing disks... wd0: interrupt timeout:
> >> wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 0
> >
> >Your disk is going bad.  Replace it.
> 
> this is not always true, this can also happen if the disk has spun down due
> to power managment...

True, that's why the message I deleted said 'probably a laptop'.  But, I
assume the user did not have a laptop since none was mentioned, and
generally speaking you don't get that many errors in a row from
spindowns (in my experience).

> harderrors are usually signals of bad disks from my experiance.

My laptop disk went dead with the above errors. :(



Nate

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