[TriLUG] DMA interrupt recovery

[Jason Tower]

probably a failed hard drive, i've seen this on at least four drives in 
the last six months.  you might try turning off DMA with 'hdparm -d0 /
dev/hda' but then performance will be abyssimally slow, if it works at 
all.

jason

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 11:04, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> Hi All-
>
> Can anyone shed some light on the following errors I'm seeing?
>
> --------
> hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_timer_expiring: dma status == 0x64
> hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_timer_expiring: dma status == 0x64
> hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_timer_expiring: dma status == 0x64
> hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_timer_expiring: dma status == 0x64
> ......
> --------
>
> System locks (cannot type anything, but this seems to keep repeating
> itself) -- cannot SSH into it either.
>
> Some info:
> - Dual system (SMP)
> - 80GB IDE HD (x2, but only 1 is causing problems)
>
> Thanks!
> Doug