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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:25:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
To:        Chris Byrnes <chrisb@highstability.com>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help: interrupt timeout
Message-ID:  <200003070525.VAA09958@cytosine.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003062202020.78468-100000@ns1.highstability.com> from Chris Byrnes at "Mar 6, 2000 10:02:34 pm"

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I sometimes have this problem with my pc.

Usually, a good kick will get it to boot.

Sometimes on laptops and stuff the hard drive cable gets
loose or something. Or, it's a bad hard drive.

Try giving is a shove.

--bhishan

> I've had the same problem.  Most people have told me that I have to
> replace the hard drive.
> 
> I never had the problem before 3.4.  Maybe that's just a coincidence,
> though.
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Byrnes (CB5820)
> Network Engineer, High Stability Internet Services
> http://www.highstability.com
> 
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
> > My laptop running 3.4-RELEASE decided it doesn't want to boot.
> > It was uncleanly shut down via the power switch by someone
> > who thought they were shutting down a different machine.
> > 
> > Now when it boots, running fsck gives this result:
> > 
> > > chip0: <Intel 82439TX System Controller (MTXC)> rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0
> > > chip1: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x02 on pci0.7.0
> > > ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX4 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.1
> > > ...
> > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x3f7 irq 14 on isa
> > > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <TOSHIBA MK6409MAV>
> > > wd0: 6194MB (12685680 sectors), 13424 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T 512 B/S
> > > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
> > > wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8171/058A>, removable, accel, dma, iordis
> > > ...
> > > # fsck /
> > > *** /dev/rwd0s3a
> > > *** Last Mounted on /
> > > *** Root file system
> > > *** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> > > wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58<rdy,seekdone> error 0)
> > > wd0: wdtimeout DMA status 4
> > > wd0: interrupt timeout (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>)
> > > wd0: wdtimeout DMA status 4
> > > wd0: interrupt timeout (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>)
> > > wd0: wdtimeout DMA status 4
> > > wd0: interrupt timeout (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>)
> > > wd0: wdtimeout DMA status 4
> > > wd0: interrupt timeout (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>)
> > > wd0: wdtimeout DMA status 4
> > > wd0: Last time I say: interrupt timeout.  Probably a portable PC. (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam>)
> > 
> > Well, yes in fact it is a portable PC :-)  It just seems to hang
> > at this point, even though there seems to be disk activity (like
> > it's continuously retrying).
> > 
> > This machine has run fine under this kernel since I installed
> > 3.4-REL a month ago or so. This same problem happens with the
> > 3.4-REL GENERIC kernel.
> > 
> > Before this, it was running fine with a 3.0++ kernel and never
> > had this problem after many power cycles.
> > 
> > Is there any hope in getting this machine to work again??
> > Howabout disabling DMA? Is there some way to do that?
> > 
> > Thanks for any pointers..
> > -Archie
> > 
> > ___________________________________________________________________________
> > Archie Cobbs   *   Whistle Communications, Inc.  *   http://www.whistle.com
> > 
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