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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:20:19 -0600
From:      dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New SoftUpdates test kit
Message-ID:  <19980222152019.28089@urh.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802222102.OAA24573@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:02:40PM -0700
References:  <008401bd3fd3$a1d3bee0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> <199802222102.OAA24573@mt.sri.com>

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On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:02:40PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:

> > >> syncing disks... wd0: interrupt timeout:
> > >> wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 0
> > >
> > >Your disk is going bad.  Replace it.
> 
> > harderrors are usually signals of bad disks from my experiance.
> 
> My laptop disk went dead with the above errors. :(

How about just one such error that popped up once ever and you're a poor
college student, and the disk itself has been employed < 1 year? :)

I'm scared.

Also, it's an IBM hard disk ... if it is going bad, you think they'll take it
back just coz FreeBSD gave me a cryptic warning?

thanks!

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