Re: Widespread hda lost interrupt problem on laptops

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:32, Adam Kessel wrote:
> When switching from power to battery on the HP OmniBook 500 laptop (and
> many other laptops, apparently) the following appears in syslog:
> 
> kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
> kernel: hda: lost interrupt

An interrupt went walkies. That in itself isnt a fatal event. I've seen
that from various boxes. Sometimes it shows up because an I/O was in
progress when the bios decided to suspend on us.

> Sometimes it results in severe hard disk corruption, and usually causes a
> system crash if the error occurred during intensive disk activity (no
> further disk access is possible).  It occurs equally when the drive is
> mounted read-only and/or in runlevel 1.

If you get disk corruption on a read only disk I think it has to be BIOS
side problems. On r/w you shouldnt. (Known exceptions - casio fiva 'lets
come back with the disk in a different configuration and suprise
everyone' and some ibm thinkpads with 20GB 2.5" disks - which
mysteriously goes away if you change disk and was also reported in
windows by some users)

Basically the OB500 is 'WONTFIX' or closer to 'CANTFIX'. I think you'll
need someone with HP BIOS source to pin it down even if the bug turns
out to be in the kernel code.