Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA -- extended

["Marc-Adrian Napoli" <marcadrian@cia.com.au>]

hi all,

> On Mon 26 Mar 01,  2:09 PM, Lex McPhail said:
> > What does the following message mean:
> >
> > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>
> i think it means linux wanted to do an operation, sent the request, waited
> for the IRQ to say "i'm done" but never got the interrupt.

i got a whole bunch of these this morning and then our debian 2.2.17 system
crashed with the following:

kernel panic LFS: VRU block list corrupted

i cant seem to find out what that means anywhere? i rebooted and changed the
drive in question, but can anyone explain what this is about?

Regards,

Marc-Adrian Napoli
Network Administrator
Connect infobahn Australia
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