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From: wongc@Hawaii.Edu (Christopher Y L Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: What is ed1: device timeout?
Date: 24 Sep 1996 18:18:53 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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I've been receiving these messages in my syslog:
Sep 21 21:24:41 dementia /kernel: ed1: device timeout
Sep 22 15:43:05 dementia /kernel: ed1: device timeout
Sep 22 18:44:21 dementia /kernel: ed1: device timeout
Sep 23 09:43:06 dementia /kernel: ed1: device timeout

What does this mean?  My guess is that the ethernet itself got unhooked or
otherwise disconnected.  But then, these things seem to sometimes
correspond to a lockup of the entire machine.  This is a machine
that I rarely see in person (hosted server and I'm the remote sysadmin)

Any ideas?

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Thanks in advance...
Chris