Re: hda:lost interrupt!!!

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 08:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:26:13PM +0530, shyam narayanan wrote:
hi all,
I had a perfect debian installation and as i boot up i am getting the
error messsage
hda:lost interrupt
hda:DMA interrupt recovery
hda:dma_timer_expiry:dma status == 0x24
these three messages are coming in loop each taking some time :(
mine is an intel pentium D processor and HDD is a 40gb seagate of
model ST340810A

I'd look for potential hardware failure of that hd.

Yeah, prepare for that drive to completely melt down soon, so you aren't
taken by surprise if it actually does.

I had a system with a chipset fan that would die intermittently,
allowing the chipset to overheat. By the time I figured out what was
happening and got the fan replaced, the chipset had been damaged. I got
DMA errors (like yours) a lot on the second IDE controller. Other than
that, I didn't have any problems.

I would suggest also doing some tests (memtest86) and disabling DMA on
that drive.

Also, perhaps a bad cable could cause that...? Unlikely I suppose.

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