[NCLUG] dma lost interrupt

[Daniel Miles]

Hi everybody
I'm having this problem that I fear might mean that my hard drive is
going bad (especially since it's happening more and more often).

every once in a while (more often during heavy use), the system "hangs"
for three or four seconds and then in my /var/log/kern.log I see a block
of text that looks like this:

Jul 13 06:30:39 Jane kernel: 
Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30)
Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady
SeekComplete }
Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel:

This didn't happen before I brought the machine up on 2.4.21 (I had it
on 2.4.18 before) so I think it may be a function of a new kernel but if
it's my hard drive I'd really like to knwo that before my data is lost.