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apparently this is a kernel issue. Any ideas? thanks Mark >This is a kernel issue - it's losing interrupts from the disk controller >and is >having to continually reset it. It may help if you turn off IDE DMA on >/dev/hda, >or you could ask on linux-kernel. > >Ian Redfern. > >Mark Hindley wrote: > >> I have just been installing potato into a new partition (created with fips) >> on an i386. I keep getting the warning message hdc: lost interrupt. the >> installation has taken ages: about 1 hour each for the kernel and base >> installation. Surely this is not what you expect? >> >> Are the 2 symptoms connected. What is the cause? I booted from the >> installation CD in /dev/hdc. I can still/always read from it. Apart from >> the slowness and continual messages, all seems fine! >> >> I have: >> >> 430TX motherboard, 64Mb SDRAM >> Harddrive on /dev/hda >> CDROM on /dev/hdc >> Yamaha 4416 CD rewriter on /dev/hdd >> >> Since the install is done I have not had any problems and the install of >> packages with dselect has gone fast. >> >> Hope you have a suggestion >> >> Mark >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-request@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>listmaster@lists.debian.org Mark Hindley Director of the Music Centre University of St Andrews 01334 462226/7 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/services/music - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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