I get these kinds of errors if I set the access time on my eide 
controller faster than my slower drive can handle,
Mine has settings for 600ns -- 50ns. 

On Thu, 26 Oct 1995 richard.ellis@kpmg.co.uk wrote:

>      Can someone please help me with a problem I am having installing 
>      netbsd 1.0. I have a dell optiplex xl/575 with a 1gb ide disk. The 
>      installation is fine until it tries to label the disk when the 
>      following error is displayed
>                wdc0: lost interrupt: error 0: status 0:
>      The installation loops continuosly displaying this error. The disk 
>      geometry (according to the bios) is 528 cyls 64 heads 63 sectors. On 
>      bootup netbsd sees it as 2112/16/63 I have tried using both geometries 
>       for the installation but get the same result.
>      
>      Any help would be appreciated.
>      
>      TIA
>      
>      Richard Ellis
> 
> 

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