hde: lost interrupt

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Heck
I am getting a lot of kernel errors of that type: hde: lost interrupt on one of my servers. (This is actually CentOS, not Fedora.) The errors are intermittent, but when they start they often will just keep coming, and the disk has locked up a couple times completely. Something presumably

Re: hde: lost interrupt

2009-09-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-30 11:24:22, Richard Heck wrote: I am getting a lot of kernel errors of that type: hde: lost interrupt on one of my servers. (This is actually CentOS, not Fedora.) The errors are intermittent, but when they start they often will just keep coming, and the disk has locked up

Re: hde: lost interrupt

2009-09-30 Thread Alan Cox
The drive is a 500GB EIDE drive, connected via a Promise Ultra 100TX2 controller to some ancient motherboard. (This is a 300MHz Pentium II, acting as a server, including a media server.) The controller is needed because the old mobo bios won't deal with such large drives. There's another