Re: hda: interrupt lost
IMHE, there are two causes for this. If the drive is new and
considered reliable, it may have something to do with the
controller/drive combination. I've had IDE drives that need to be
de-tuned in order to work properly. For example, the IDE driver
appeared to report a higher DMA capability than a drive could support.
Reducing the UDMA level one notch fixed the problem.
On the other hand, if the drive has had more than six months of use,
it is very likely (most likely, in fact) that the drive is failing.
The smart gambler would bet that a new drive, probably less than
US$100, would cure the errors.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:57:09PM +0800, darke@aijv.com.au wrote:
> I have decided to first send my question to the debian-devel lists rather
> than attempt to subscribe to a general linux list in order to find a
> solution to this problem.
>
> Reasonably suddenly my 'firewall' box has developed a problem
> reporting "hda: interrupt lost" quite regularily to the console
> and during some bootups. Also, the boot sequence reports that
> hda is 'Busy' (I would cut and paste the report, but as the
> next sequence explains, grep is not viable)
>
> Commands that access the disk more than slightly seem to also
> lock up now (bzip, grep, cat, et al).
>
> Is there any way to solve this problem using any the available
> tools in debian packages? I am assuming something in _hdparm_
> or _hwtools_ ?
>
> Or is the only solution burning the drive with something akin
> to a blow torch and then reinstalling onto a new drive? Googling
> has not returned anything useful in the way of advice, except
> that it might be APM related (no APM on the machine). And reading
> the source (drivers/block/ide.c) doesnt really offer any
> hints either.
>
> Many many thanks in advance to any and all advice.
>
> Peter Crystal.
> darke@debian.org // darke@indigo.net.au
>
>
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