I get similar things when my Compaq Contura trys to go in sleep. Then the HD slows down and wakes up a few seconds later and the message shows up.
Somebody told me, it has to do with firmware in the disk. I can copy the mails directly to You, if You want. Matth On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, David Reviejo wrote: > * Morgan Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000405 19:31]: > > I've been getting the message "ide1: unexpected interrupt, status=0x51, > > count=1" on my laptop since installing potato (I had no such problems > > before, when I had Slackware 7.0). It only does this occasionally, and > > it never seems to do it when I have a CD in the the drive (ide1 is the > > CD-ROM). Any ideas as to what this could be? > > I'm getting the same all the time; it seem to be related with the power > management (APM) and the CD-ROM reporting is idle or something; maybe > the CD-ROM kernel module is not loaded when this happen. > > Another problem I think it's related: if I run an audio CD with a > command tool like cdplay, I can't run all the disc: at a random position > in the middle, the CD is stopped. I think the problem is (NOT tested...) > the CD-ROM kernel module is unloaded (rmmod from the system cron), and > then some "unexpected interrupt" make the rest. I have no problem when > using wmcdplay, I think because it need to access the CD drive all the > time to show time and status, and the kernel module is not unloaded. > > Anyway, you can live with this :) > -- > David > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

