Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:14:34AM +0300, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
>> Hi! Thanks for the reply.
>> 
>> It doesn't hang at all, it just gets stuck in printing those 
>> messages. It finds both of the (SATA) drives. I remember having had
>>  a similar problem with other machines during the days I've been 
>> using NetBSD... So I'm quite sure it's fixable :-)
>> 
>> What next? Try old versions of viaide.c and see where the problem 
>> disappears?
> 
> Yes, and also compare interrupts allocation between working and 
> non-working kernels.

Well, I got a hint in e-mail from Nir Mor to disable APIC from the BIOS.
I have been looking at the BIOS settings earlier, but they
didn't help. I had tried everything, except enabling the
IDE channels. I have had them disabled, as I don't have
any IDE drives, only SATA. Well, it solved the problem
for me. When I have *both* unused IDE channels enabled,
there are no lost interrupts, but even if I disable
one of them, I get lost interrupts.

Not looking at the code at all, I have no idea whether this is
a bug in the hardware or in the code - or in the BIOS user
interface - letting me disable "very important" devices :-)

Best regards,
Teem