Hi Shrini,

I am having almost the exact same problem, but with
the cd-rom of my i386 Compaq during the 1.6.1 install
boot.  Here is a link to my original message I posted
to the port-i386 email list:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2003/12/18/0025.html

The following error messages I get are repeated for at
least 20 times with different numbers:

pciide0:1:1: recal timed out

wd1d: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd1 bn0; cn 0 tn
0 sn 0), retrying

pciide0:1:1: lost interrupt
      type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0


It also mentions this once, at least:

wd1: dos partiton I/O error

Since you are having almost the same issue, I am
wondering if this could be a bug in 1.6.1.  If anyone,
else has any more info that can fix this problem, that
would be great.

Thanks,
J Silverman
--- Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The 1.6.1 install kernel hangs in the initial bootup
> process on i386 machines
> after giving the following error message
> 
> "
> ...
> pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>     type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing
> interrupt, status=0x21"
> [hangs here]
> "
> 
> This is happening with two systems I have. One has
> Seagate Barracuda and the
> other has Western Digital WD800.
> 
> There is an open bug filed against Netbsd 1.4
> (#7807) with the above error
> message, but it doesn't seem to freeze the system as
> it does in my case. It
> prints soft interrupt error messages and proceeds
> further.
> 
> One of my friend also has seen this message with
> 1.6.1.
> 
> Is there any fix for this problem or a list of known
> hard disks which works ?
> 
> The ata page says that MFM, ESDI, IDE hard disks are
> supported.
> 
> Thanks,
> Srini.
> 
> 
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