5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean?

[Godwin Stewart]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:01:41 -0800, "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I just upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE a few days ago. This morning this line got 
> into my system log file:
> Nov  9 06:14:03 www kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen
> but timeout fired LBA=2491143
> 
> I've never seen this message before. Can someone please explain what it 
> means? With Thanks,

Looks like you may have a hard disk about to die. I'd start doing backups if
I were you and then consider replacing the HD.

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