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From: Dom Mitchell
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <32F1E56C.6616A7E1@shawc.demon.co.uk>,
Shaw Carruthers  <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Recently I have been getting warnings of the following type referring to
>my 2nd IDE drive:
>
>Jan 31 12:14:44 shawc linux: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady 
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
>
>Jan 31 12:14:44 shawc linux: hdb: read_intr: error=0x04 {
>DriveStatusError }
>
>Does this mean the drive is on its way out?

Maybe, maybe not.  I get this error from my laptop, when it
powers down the disk underneath Linux's feet and then get spun up
again.  It all appears to be fine.  Having said that, this is the
laptop which crashes after 15 minutes of running windows and has
a 3 week uptime with Linux. YMMV.

-Dom

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From: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dom Mitchell)
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Date: 1997/02/01
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