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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:24:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ian Pallfreeman <ip@mcc.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wdx interrupt timeouts
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970409212407.4997k-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199704081502.QAA11310@albatross.mcc.ac.uk>

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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Ian Pallfreeman wrote:

> I've been seeing messages similar to:
> 
> Apr  8 15:07:54 lurch /kernel: wd3: interrupt timeout:
> Apr  8 15:07:54 lurch /kernel: wd3: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 0
> Apr  8 15:46:05 lurch /kernel: wd3: interrupt timeout:
> Apr  8 15:46:05 lurch /kernel: wd3: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>
> 
> for some time on my home P200 with second-hand IBM disks, and assumed that it 
> was simply the disks being slightly naughty. However, this machine (lurch) is
> a P-Pro 200 with two brand-new 3.8Gb Quantum Fireballs.

Do you have IDE spindown enabled?  That's what it looks like happened--
wd3 spun down and the system tried to poke it, and it took a little too
long to come back to ready.  Nothing to worry about.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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