On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:22:07AM +0100, Ihsan Dogan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had yesterday an interesting error:
> 
> Feb 16 19:31:58 defiant /netbsd: pciide0:1:0: lost interrupt
> Feb 16 19:31:59 defiant /netbsd:    type: ata tc_bcount: 16384
> tc_skip: 0
> Feb 16 19:31:59 defiant /netbsd: pciide0:1:0: bus-master DMA
> error: missing interrupt, status=0x21
> Feb 16 19:31:59 defiant /netbsd: wd1a: DMA error writing fsbn
> 150094464 of 150094464-150094495 (wd1 bn 150098624; cn 148907 tn
> 5 sn 53), retrying
> Feb 16 19:31:59 defiant /netbsd: wd1: soft error (corrected)
> 
> Hardware (i386):
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller
> (PIIX4) (rev. 0x01)
> 
> I'm not afraid of that, but I'm wondering, what does that mean
> and how I should interpret this message.

If it doesn't happen often, it's most likely an electrical glitch on the IDE
bus. Probably not something to worry about, it's something to be expected
on a non-terminated non-differential bus like IDE.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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