Re: hda: lost interrupt

["Illo de' Illis" <illo@mclink.it>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 05:25:32PM -0500, Stephen R. Gore wrote:
> Jim McCloskey wrote:
> > 
> > Achim Bohnet <ach@ooops.xray.mpe.mpg.de> wrote about:
> > 
> > |> hda: lost interrupt
> > |> hda: read_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> > 
> ---end quoted text---
> 
> This looks to me like the message I get when I use a kernel with
> DMA enabled with a buggy mobo.  Try building a kernel with DMA
> disabled, or play with the package hdparm (or both).

Or, given that they are two laptops, it could be a bad or non-existant APM
support that prevents the kernel from correctly accessing the hdd after a
suspend/resume cycle.

Ciao,
Illo.

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