Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Widespread hda lost interrupt problem on laptops | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 03 Dec 2002 21:53:21 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:32, Adam Kessel wrote: > When switching from power to battery on the HP OmniBook 500 laptop (and > many other laptops, apparently) the following appears in syslog: > > kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13 > kernel: hda: lost interrupt
An interrupt went walkies. That in itself isnt a fatal event. I've seen that from various boxes. Sometimes it shows up because an I/O was in progress when the bios decided to suspend on us.
> Sometimes it results in severe hard disk corruption, and usually causes a > system crash if the error occurred during intensive disk activity (no > further disk access is possible). It occurs equally when the drive is > mounted read-only and/or in runlevel 1.
If you get disk corruption on a read only disk I think it has to be BIOS side problems. On r/w you shouldnt. (Known exceptions - casio fiva 'lets come back with the disk in a different configuration and suprise everyone' and some ibm thinkpads with 20GB 2.5" disks - which mysteriously goes away if you change disk and was also reported in windows by some users)
Basically the OB500 is 'WONTFIX' or closer to 'CANTFIX'. I think you'll need someone with HP BIOS source to pin it down even if the bug turns out to be in the kernel code.
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