Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:10:35 +0100 | From | Mark Hindley <> | Subject | Re: hdc: lost interrupt and very slow installation |
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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
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