Hi all,
I got this rather scary message when I booted up my Debian PC last evening.
First I noticed my hdd was making relatively more noise than usual. I had
removed it quite recently for use in backing-up data of a windoze machine
that was showing symptoms of imminent disk failure. (discovered later that it
wasn't actually the disk, but the IDE cable). I connected this device as the
master, booted Linux and transfered all data on the ntfs partition to a newly
created vfat partition and returned the disk to where it belonged.
So, upon restarting Linux successfully, running fsck at boot, logging in and
using the machine for a while whilst listening to grinding noises coming from
the hdd, I heard this clicking sound just before the light of the hdd went
off. I then issued ls command to list directory contents but what I got was a
sequence of lost interrupt messages;
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
and so on..........