On Fri, 16 May 2003, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
> > > 	The cables are quite short and the drives are quite old.
> > > 	Disconnecting the CD seems to have helped, but I'm confused
> > > 	why there would be 'lost interrupt' on both wd0 and wd1 when
> > > 	they were on different channels, and the CD (on channel 0) was
> > > 	never accessed?
> >
> > The CD could create problems on the IDE bus it's connected to.
> > I've already have troubles with incompatible ATA hardware.
> >
> > I don't know why it would cause problems on the second channel, but it's
> > still the same chip. Who knowns what happen inside it.
>
> 	Is there any reasonable way to try to find out what is happening?
> 	I'll try swapping out the CD drives in the two afflicted
> 	machines to see if that helps.

	I've swapped out the CD drives in the affected machines and the
	problem still occurs. Would the be any likelyhood that swapping
	the master/slave setup of the CDs and drives would help?

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