Server, interrupted.

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

> Slap in the face #1: The drive is an ATA/133.  The only computers I have new 
> enough to talk to it are my server and my wife's computer, both home-built. 
> The penalty for breaking my wife's computer while she's workin on tax stuff 
> is too horrible to mention, so I decided to risk using my server.

I don't see why ATA/133 would be a problem.  They are backwards 
compatable, so they should work fine on any older IDE controllers, 
although at a slower speed.

Now depending on the SIZE of the drive you might have problems.  Anything 
over 120GB (or was it 130?) you need a controller that supports LBA48 
addressing in order to be able to use the drive.

> Now, my server is pretty filled to the gills.  Two ethernet cards, CDRW 
> drive, DVD-R drive, video card, sound card, USB, FireWire, SCSI card...
>
> Slap in the face #2: When I put in the hard drive, I ran out of IRQ's.  I 
> didn't realize this right away, but it took some juggling of hooking up the 
> drives in different sequences to get the motherboard to recognize both the CD 
> drives and both the hard drives.  However, my sound card started playing a 
> high-pitched tone that was so loud it woke up my parents in New York, instead 
> of any sound it was supposed to play.  So I partitioned the drive, and 
> removed it.

Are you using IO-APIC on the machine?  An easy way to check 
/proc/interrupts and look for either "XT-PIC" or "IO-APIC".  Using the 
APIC can sometimes help with IRQ issues I believe.