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Re: ide-detect / lost interrupt



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Paula Harris wrote:

| The Installation of skole rc2 was extremely slow and
| showed from the beginning error-messages concerning
| lost interrupts:
| "syslog.err klogd: hdc lost interrupt"
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| tested with different cd-roms,
| different hds (40,0GB,Western
| Digital,7200U/min,UDMA100; 4,3GB Seagate,...)

Sounds like you use an old cable for the harddrive. You need to use
ultra-DMA cables for harddrives to avoid this kind of problems.

Ultra-DMA cables are stiff (single thick cobber wires) where old cables
(still used for CDs) are softer (many thin cobber wires).


~ - Jonas

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* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
* Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

~ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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