[lug] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7, then hang

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:56:02 -0700
Andrew Gilmore <agilmore at uc.usbr.gov> wrote:

> I've googled a bit for this one, but come up empty so far.
> If anyone has any ideas, that'd be great.
>
> Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
> then about once a second or two:
> (without DMA enabled)
> hda: lost interrupt
> (with DMA enabled)

	I don't know if this is related or not, but I had very
similiar problems with HiPoint RAID controller and Maxtor
drives. Evidently they don't play well together.

	At this point I have 2 40G drives that aren't being used
because I don't have a controller to plug them in to. Once I turned of
the HiPoint chips the box boots up fine. And, BTW, it didn't matter if
I was using them in RAID or in IDE mode, same result either way.

	I've dropped some hints, we'll see if Santa comes through :)
I'd be more concerned about it, but I've not yet needed the other two
drives, but I can foresee the day when it will become an issue.

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