On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 07:42:29PM -0500, John Hawkinson wrote:
> | > b) 
> | >  timeout waiting dor DRQ st=0x50 err=0x00  
> | >  device timeout writing fsbn retrying 
> | >  soft error (corrected)
> | 
> | Is it after your drive has spun down ? If so it's harmless.
> 
> Err, if harmless, the message should be a bit clearer and should documented
> somewhere indicating its harmlessness...

The message already has "soft error (corrected)" :)
Now, this can also indicate some hardware problem when it doesn't happen at
suspend or drive sleep time.
Also I think different messages can happen, depending on the drive type and
its mode of operation (PIO/DMA), and the command that failed.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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