Re: "hda: lost interrupt"

From: Joe (joe_at_jretrading.com)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:31:52 +0000

In message <slrnc36908.899.dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.net>, Dave Brown
<dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.net> writes
>In article <c0sqqr$6u3$2@nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, Timm Brinkmann wrote:
>> I tried to replace my mainboard with a VIA chipset by one with a SiS
>> chipset, and now Linux gives me at boottime the error:
>> "hda: lost interrupt". And then after a little time the next error:
>> "hdb: lost interrupt". I changed nothing with my system except for
>> the new board. BIOS recognizes all the right devices on the IDE
>> controllers.
>> When i boot Knoppix (a "live-CD" Linux distribution) i get the same
>> error: no other messages but "hda: lost interrupt".
>> Windows XP doesn't boot either, but with no error.
>
>Pure guess, but you might have a flaky hard drive cable.
>If you're getting an error message, you
>might actually be loading a kernel, at least partially, which might also
>suggest a memory problem. (New motherboard implies you disturbed drive
>cable, plugged memory...) Maybe an out-of-box failure of the motherboard.
>
>Doesn't sound like software, if both Knoppix and Windows are failing.
>
Sorry, I have a motherboard which seems to work fine, except that all
the Linux distros I have to hand need the 'noapic' option to boot,
including Knoppix.

An existing XP Home installation wouldn't boot but responded to a rescue
reinstall and is now running fine, and an existing 2003 Server could not
be rescued but had to be fully reinstalled. Now OK.

Windows 98 took some rebooting (about a dozen) and much ministering with
driver CDs but it finally got its act together. NT4.0 hardly even
noticed the change, just needing another network driver.

I do not believe it has any hardware problems that weren't designed in,
as I got the 'noapic' tip from Google. It's an Asrock K7S8X with SiS
chipset. 

-- 
Joe

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