From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 23:19:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (rno-dsl0b-240.gbis.net [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040D237C0AB for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:19:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA37984; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <0dec01bf93ce$e19a6000$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "William Wong" , Subject: Re: HD dying? Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:18:53 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >My 3.4R machine hung (CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. Had to hit reset on the box) >a couple of times today. > >Here were the last couple of log files: > >Mar 19 00:45:42 epoch /kernel: wd0e: wdstart: timeout waiting to give >command writing >fsbn 1030889 of 1030889-1030920 (wd0 bn 1030889; cn 64 tn 43 sn 20) (status >90 error 0) > >Mar 19 23:45:08 epoch /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout (status >50 error 0) >Mar 19 23:45:08 epoch /kernel: wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 1 > >When I reboot the machine, my IDE hds (wd0/wd2 - striping with vinum) fsck >nicely (nothing lost) and everything seems to work. Just a guess, but do you have BIOS APM enabled? Could this be powering-down your drive? >Everything seems to >work fine now, but I'm curious to wonder if this is a one time problem, or >if this is just an early sign that my IDE HDs will blow up one day? Well, I've seem at least 5 IDE drives go belly-up in my time, and not a single one ever gave any early warning of an impending failure. So, my guess is "no." If an IDE drive is going to go bad, it just does, with no warning... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message