On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 18:50:31 +0200
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:47:19PM -0700, SAR wrote:
> > All, 
> > 
> > I just started seeing warnings like the following:
> > 
> > ---
> > pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> >         type: ata tc_bcount: 65536 tc_skip: 0
> > pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt,
> > status=0x21 pciide0:0:0: device timeout, c_bcount=65536,
> > c_skip0 wd0e: device timeout reading fsbn 3115824 of
> > 3115824-3115951 (wd0 bn 15744048; cn 15619 tn 1 sn 33),
> > retrying wd0: soft error (corrected)
> > ---
> > 
> > I just saw a burst of 7 of these on my console.  
> > 
> > This machine has been running about 36 hours since I ran a
> > fresh install of NetBSD 1.5.2 on a new disk.  These are the
> > only unusual messages I've seen from this system.  Since the
> > last part of the message reports the soft error was
> > corrected, I hope this doesn't mean my system is seriously
> > failing.
> > 
> > Advice on where to start investigating?
> 
> I would first check the IDE cable, as this can be caused by a
> electrical problem on the IDE bus. Do you have other devices on
> this channel ?

Thanks for the tip.  I'll try swapping out the cable.  

At the moment, I have only one disk (A 30 Gb Western Digital) on 
this channel.

Have a good one!
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SAR
sar@computer.org