Error mesg on boot, 1.2.13 kernel

[Rodney Thayer]

try, if it makes sense for your linux configuration, unplugging/disabling
the second IDE drive and see if it still happens.

also I think on-track has a bad reputation (in general not just with linux...)

At 07:33 AM 8/17/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi
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>I sure hope someone here can help me out. I have had this problem from day 
>one. I have an AST Advantage pro 486-DX66 with 
>20M RAM
>WD 1GB IDE HD
>WD 340KB IDE HD
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>On boot up using the Ygdrassill distribution of linux I will see this error 
>message on the screen.
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>IDE1:unexpected_intr:status=0x40
>IDE1:unexpected_intr:status=0x40
>IDE1:unexpected_intr:status=0x40
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>This will repeat over and over with an occasional line of 
>0x250.IDE1:unexpected_intr:status=0x40
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>thrown in, with the 0x???.IDE1:unexpected_intr:status=0x40
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>being a different number each time.
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>Now in the beginning it would have happen for about 5-10 minutes and then 
>boot into linux. 
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>But now I can not boot into linux at all. This error will continue on 
>forever I think. I once let it run over night with not luck. 
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>My question is : What is the reference to unexpected_intr:0x40.
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>I am using OnTrac's disk manager. 
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>I do have some bad sectors on the primary drive, could linux be getting 
>hung up on these blocks. If so how do I get around this?
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>Thanks,
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>Paul
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