[olug] RE: HDC: Lost Interrupt Error
Brian Wiese
bwiese at cotse.com
Fri Apr 18 03:34:16 UTC 2003
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:37:38 -0700 (PDT)
CM Miller <cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com> wrote:
|
|
|I don't remember seeing Adam post that...?
I posted it... hidden in the olug raid meeting notes
|So where would I add hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda? Under
|/etc/sysconfig/harddisk where USE_DMA = 1 is?
/etc/sysconfig is for redhat. you could give use the hdparm command on the
CLI or probably in one of your startup files, /etc/inittab or something
|Since I've changed that, it has had a few delays, but
|nothing like it was doing.
|
|Also, it isn't a very old hard drive, I got it in Nov
|of '01.
hrmm, kel
|thanks
|
|-Chris
|
|
|--- Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:
|> Perhaps youre hard drive is very old and doesnt
|> support DMA? Adam
|> mentioned using "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda" I believe.
|> Hrmm... if this seems
|> to have solved it, no errors for days, thats good to
|> know.
|>
|> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:06:37 -0700 (PDT)
|> CM Miller <cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com> wrote:
|>
|> |
|> |
|> |I generally don't give up so easily, so after not
|> |getting an my problem answer here I posted to
|> |
|> |
|> |http://www.linuxjunior.org
|> |
|> |
|> |Someone advised that I modify
|> /etc/sysconfig/harddisk
|> |and uncomment the following:
|> |
|> |USE_DMA = 1
|> |
|> |It works, but now I want to know, why?
|> |
|> |DMA, I suspect is Direct Memory Access and here are
|> |some of the comments above this line
|> |
|> |
|> |# These options are used to tune the hard drives -
|> |# read the hdparm man page for more information
|> |
|> |# Set this to 1 to enable DMA. This might cause
|> some
|> |# data corruption on certain chipset / hard drive
|> |# combinations. This is used with the "-d" option
|> |
|> |
|> |thanks
|> |
|> |
|> |
|> |
|> |>>Thanks Brian for the help, see my comments below.
|>
|> |
|> |
|> |--- Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:
|> |> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:24:01 -0700 (PDT)
|> |> CM Miller <cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com> wrote:
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> |Whenever using XMMS to play oggs/mp3s from a
|> |> mounted
|> |> |cdrom, XMMS will stop playing and do nothing. I
|> |> |cannot kill the process, or umount. I have to
|> |> reboot
|> |> |to fix it.
|> |>
|> |> When does it the music stop/xmms die?
|> |>Do you play
|> |> music for awhile, then
|> |> hours later it just stops or hangs and you can't
|> |> kill it?
|> |
|> |
|> |It varies, sometimes right away, sometimes 5 or 10
|> |minutes later.
|> |
|> |
|> |>I've had
|> |> something like this before, after playing mp3s
|> from
|> |> a networked drive over
|> |> many hours/days - it seemed like xmms would lock
|> up
|> |> and the system needed
|> |> to be rebooted, again - I couldnt kill the xmms
|> |> process. I think it had
|> |> something to do with tying up my sound device
|> |> /dev/dsp or something, it
|> |> was locked up too if I recall - or still in use
|> by
|> |> xmms.
|> |>
|> |> |Using clt+alt and F1, I get out of the GUI, get
|> a
|> |> |login screen, login in and get this error:
|> |> |
|> |> |HDC: Lost Interrupt.
|> |>
|> |> You get this on reboots/boot ups? Just when you
|> are
|> |> playing music from
|> |> xmms? This doesn't seem like an error that xmms
|> |> would spit out.
|> |
|> |
|> |Nah, I don't think it is an error with XMMS, my
|> |research on this points to two things: Either
|> |conflict with ides or enable multi-mode for my
|> kernel,
|> |which I have never heard of before.
|> |
|> |
|> |>
|> |> |Google the output and get this website
|> |> |
|> |>
|>
|||http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/02/lostinterrupt.html
|> |> |
|> |> |
|> |> |I check my /proc/interrupts
|> |> |
|> |> |
|> |> | CPU0
|> |> | 0: 10307351 XT-PIC timer
|> |> | 1: 12545 XT-PIC keyboard
|> |> | 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
|> |> | 3: 123161 XT-PIC SiS 7018 PCI
|> |> Audio,
|> |> |EMU10K1
|> |> | 5: 13429 XT-PIC eth0
|> |> | 6: 22 XT-PIC floppy
|> |> | 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
|> |> | 11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci,
|> usb-ohci
|> |> | 12: 213315 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
|> |> | 14: 82148 XT-PIC ide0
|> |> | 15: 115332 XT-PIC ide1
|> |> |NMI: 0
|> |> |ERR: 1
|> |> |
|> |> |
|> |> |Looks like I have ide0 and ide1 being used...and
|> |> ide1
|> |> |is using IRQ15, which is right, correct?
|> |> |
|> |> |
|> |> |...and then check my /proc/ioports and get
|> |> |
|> |> |
|> |> |0000-001f : dma1
|> |> |0020-003f : pic1
|> |> |0040-005f : timer
|> |> |0060-006f : keyboard
|> |> |0070-007f : rtc
|> |> |0080-008f : dma page reg
|> |> |00a0-00bf : pic2
|> |> |00c0-00df : dma2
|> |> |00f0-00ff : fpu
|> |> |0170-0177 : ide1
|> |> |01f0-01f7 : ide0
|> |> |0376-0376 : ide1
|> |> ...
|> |> |I have ide1 listed twice.
|> |> |0170-0177 : ide1
|> |> |0376-0376 : ide1
|> |> |
|> |> |Is this right?
|> |>
|> |> According to the website you listed, and my
|> settings
|> |> --- I imagine so, I
|> |> have the same output as I guess those are the
|> |> standard interrupts for
|> |> ide1.
|> |>
|> |
|> |Then I am stumped if you and I have the same output
|> |under /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports
|> |
|> |This is something that I can 'workaround', but I
|> |know there is a solution out there.
|> |
|> |
|> |
|> |
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