> wd0 is hooked up to the "internal" ide, and disks wd1 and wd2
> are connected to a PCI card
> (pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: Promise Ultra133/ATA Bus Master IDE  Accelerator (rev. 0x02))
> I get lots of these:
> Mar 11 23:27:40 grace /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
> Mar 11 23:27:49 grace /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt

I've been complaining about this for ages with people telling me it's my
hardware. I'm also using a Promise-type controller (Sonnet Tempo Trio),
and in my case as well, heavy load seems to precipitate it. 1.6.2_RC3 didn't
make it much better, although like you stated, the errors appear benign.

> Can anyone tell me if it is at least a little improved in NetBSD 1.6.2?
> Any advice for getting around this?  So far it looks pretty annoying,
> but not fatal.  It'll be a pretty severe performance problem.
> Now that I've been playing with it a bit, I'm finding that no
> command that touches the disks on the Promise card  (like "df -k")
> seems to complete....

Ooog. Mine *does* work okay in that respect.

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