On Thu, 15 May 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > 	The cables are quite short and the drives are quite old.
> > 	Disconnecting the CD seems to have helped, but I'm confused
> > 	why there would be 'lost interrupt' on both wd0 and wd1 when
> > 	they were on different channels, and the CD (on channel 0) was
> > 	never accessed?
>
> The CD could create problems on the IDE bus it's connected to.
> I've already have troubles with incompatible ATA hardware.
>
> I don't know why it would cause problems on the second channel, but it's
> still the same chip. Who knowns what happen inside it.

	Is there any reasonable way to try to find out what is happening?
	I'll try swapping out the CD drives in the two afflicted
	machines to see if that helps.

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