Subject: Re: lost interrupt - dangerous?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/04/1996 12:37:15
Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> writes:
> Oct 4 02:01:06 muikku /netbsd: wdc0: lost interrupt: status 50<drdy,dsc> error 0
> Oct 4 02:01:06 muikku /netbsd: wdc0: lost interrupt: reading 1@wd0:2112838
>
> Are these dangerous? What should I do about them? Is my disk dying? Has
> some data been lost? Am I just being a paranoid? :-)
I used to get these on slower drives, but recently have not, prolly because
all the older drives died. :)
If you just got these once or twice, I'd not worry about it if whatever
was using the disk at that time (daily?) didn't notice. If it did, well,
that's a hardware thing.
My guess anyway.
--Michael