On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Right at the moment I suspect most of the lost interrupt stuff is PCI/APIC
> > stuff, certainly on 2.3.9x. You can't simply say 'it runs flawlessly' when
> > for someone it doesn't.
>
> If the chipset is tuned correctly and the drive is put in the correct
> transfer rate "it runs flawlessly". Even under PCI/APIC with a PIIX3
> 440FX PPro........this is with a broken MPTable, also........
Well...it's awfully hard to tune it when I can't boot because the laptop
hangs on the partition check with lost interrupt and never comes back. If I
disable the dma by default option, then I don't have the PIIX tuning option
any more.
> The question is how are they using the device?
/dev/hda is my device. It is my ext2 filesystem.
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