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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel error message - what does it mean ?
Date: 26 Jan 1996 23:44:57 GMT
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Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> writes:

> /kernel: wd0: interrupt imeout:
> /kernel: wd0: status 5a<seekdone,drq,index> error 0
> /kernel: wd0: interrupt imeout:
> /kernel: wd0: status 5a<seekdone,drq,index> error 1<no_dam>

> Is this indicative of bad memory chips or bad EIDE disk ?

A disk problem, perhaps also with the controller or the timing.

> I am assuming the scramble on the SCSI disk is merely a by-product.

Yup.
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cheers, J"org

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