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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!taco!garfield.catt.ncsu.edu!big
- From: big@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Alan Porter)
- Subject: HD interrupts and IDE
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.161030.5898@ncsu.edu>
- Summary: cough, sputter, barf
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:10:30 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- I hope some of you guys can help me out with my Linux problems. I am
- really excited about running Linux at home (key word: running :)
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- I have been getting the infamous "Unexpected HD interrupt" messages
- whenever I do anything that requires a lot of disk activity (like tar,
- or worse yet, rebuilding the kernel).
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- Even more annoying, I also get the "HD timeout", the 4 second wait, and
- then the "HD-controller reset".
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- First, my system:
- 386-40, IDE drive (KLOC KL3120, 115 MB), 4 MB RAM, 60 MB Minix FS, 5 MB swap.
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- I had heard that these error messages happen a lot on ESDI drives, but I
- have never heard of IDE drives giving these errors. As a quick fix, I
- commented the printk lines out of /usr/src/linux/fd/blk_drv/hd.c, but I have
- also been having trouble getting the linux source to compile (I get the
- problems with tools/build.c). What compounds the problems is the fact
- that my hard disk spends about 50% of it's time "timed out" when I am
- doing a kernel build, so it takes about an hour.
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- Is there a way that I can get rid of my HD problems? Should I consider
- exchanging my hard disk and controller for SCSI? Do I have something
- wrong with gcc (that's giving me the tools/build.c errors)? Should I
- try to download the source from a different site (is the one at tsx-11
- "sane")?
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- Alan Porter (big@catt.ncsu.edu)
- address: 104-A Darlena Court, Cary NC 27511 USA
- home phone: (919) 481-4255 work phone: (919) 481-8161
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