hdb and hdd: lost interupt at boot time - intermittent failure, sometimes I booted with all drives present and correct, sometimes only one drive would be identified! This was prior to any OS loading, so it was not a Linux specific problem.
Solution - there was a Bios option for "fastboot". Turning that off fixed the problem. I am guessing that the hard drive was being accessed before it had finished it's POST / warm up.
hdd: lost interupt if it was accessed while the cd burner (second primary) was writing a CD. Turned out (eventually) that the non Dell cd burner was in the final stage of dying (it had worked well for about 4 years, so I am not complaining). Put the Dell cd burner back in, and havent had a problem since then (touch wood).
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:10:47 +1100 (EST)
From: Grant Parnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linus Newbie
To: Bruce Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Either what Scott said or Linux reckons the disk is a lost cause. This
stuff isn't normal. Did you ever have any other operating system on
the
disk? Did you have any problems installing that?
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 22-01-2004 07:42:14 AM:
>
> > Hi there,
> > I'm new to linux and am trying to install it on my Dell Dimension
8300.
> > I'm having some trouble though and am finding it hard to get any
> > help. I get the following lines on the initial screen
> > hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: host protected area =>1
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: 234375000 sectors (120000MB) w/8192KiB cache,
CHS=14589/555/63,
> UDMA(33)
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > Partition check:
> > hda: <4> hda: dma_timer and so on
>
> This sounds like a dma problem.
> You should get some sort of Boot: prompt right? (I haven't installed
> Mandrake 9.2, and its been so long sine I have installed Redhat 7.2)
> at the boot prompt, type your kernel image (ie: linux??) followed by
> ide=nodma. it should read: > linux ide=nodma > > If the image is not linux, I think pressing tab twice will show you what > images you can select from. > > Cheers, > > Scott >
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