I've seen that on drives that are starting to go bad. windows won't catch 
until BSOD (by then, its waaaaaaay too late). better to backup what data you 
can, and then get a new drive. that one is going to get progressively more 
unreliable with time.

Technomage Hawke

On Sunday 11 April 2004 11:00 am, steve wiebelhaus wrote:
> My system won't boot Linux any more. During boot, it works up to where it
> starts giving the error message "hdb: lost interrupt" just after rw
> mounting the partitions. It just keeps repeating that over and over, won't
> do anything else. When I googled, some sites said that this problem had to
> do with dma, and that turning dma off would fix. I tried that, along with
> some other kernel parameters "ide=nodma, noapic, noacpi, noapm, nodma" None
> helped. I can still boot into WindowsXP, which is on the next partition on
> the same hard drive. I can also boot with the Suse LiveCD. Using the
> LiveCD, I can access both hard drives, both use the dma option.
> Any ideas of what could be causing the lost interrupt, or how to fix it?
>
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