Re: lost interrupt hell - Plea for Help

[Denis Vlasenko]

On 9 May 2002 09:34, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> > I have tried every combination of master / slave between the two drives,
> > the drives on their own, scsi emulation through ide-scsi, purely as IDE
> > drives, ommitting ide cdrom support from teh kernel completely and only
> > using ide-scsi... every time I try to get a track ripped, dmesg fills up
> > with hdX: lost interrupt.
> >
> > If I try to rip from the DVD drive, the system hangs and its reset
> > button time.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? Is there anything from my
> > system you need to see to help me?
>
> Hi again. I've thought I've already given up but just to be sure and not
> forget about anything (yes, some people - like me - don't know when to
> stop and go home):
>
> 1. Have you tried another ide cables?
> 2. Do they stick ok?
> 3. How about unplugging CD completely from the motherboard?
> 4. Perhaps you need to compile via-specific options into your kernel.
>
> In my case, every time I've seen lost interrupt it was something from the
> above.

But none of the above justifies kernel hang. It's a bug to fix.
There is IDE maintainer for 2.4:

Andre Hedrick <[e-mail]> [09 apr 2002]
	ATA/ATAPI Storage Architect [2.0,2.2,2.4]
	HBA interface developer
	Serial ATA Architect [future release]
	Voting NCITS member AT-Attachment Committee

Ask him what details he needs and maybe he will be able to help.
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vda