Re: openbsd under heavy load corrupts fs and crash ?

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Per-Erik Persson wrote:
SNIP
> The interesting information I got last time was:
> 
> Feb  2 02:01:52 meso named[7465]: ---w2k machines trying to update the 
> nameserver all the time...----
> Feb  2 02:12:53 meso /bsd: wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout
> Feb  2 02:12:54 meso /bsd:      type: ata
> Feb  2 02:12:54 meso /bsd:      c_bcount: 8192
> Feb  2 02:12:54 meso /bsd:      c_skip: 0
> Feb  2 02:12:54 meso /bsd: pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing 
> interrupt,
>  status=0x20
> 
> I know that some people would suggest me to purchase some SCSI stuff but 
> that is not an option......

Actually I believe posts on this list have suggested that you upgrade the
IDE cable first.