On Wednesday, 18 Feb 2004 23:12 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > 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.

Good to know. It hapened only one time.
Thanks for your answer.


Cheers, Ihsan...

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