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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
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Subject: Re: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote:

> 3.1-stable
> Dell Latitute 266CPi laptop
> 
> I've been getting the messege:
> wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 4<abort>)
> wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
> 
> repeated every few minutes.  What does this mean?

Your hard disk spun down.  FreeBSD doesn't like that.

Doug White                               
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