Widespread hda lost interrupt problem on laptops

[Adam Kessel <adam@bostoncoop.net>]

Please cc: me on responses.

The following problem has been discussed on many different mailing lists
(including this one) over the past couple of years, although I believe
there are many of us for whom none of the posted suggestions have worked.
Hopefully I'm not out of line for venturing onto this list as a
non-expert: 

When switching from power to battery on the HP OmniBook 500 laptop (and
many other laptops, apparently) the following appears in syslog:

kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
kernel: hda: lost interrupt

This also occurs when suspending/resuming,  sleeping/resuming, or
switching from battery to power.

Sometimes it results in severe hard disk corruption, and usually causes a
system crash if the error occurred during intensive disk activity (no
further disk access is possible).  It occurs equally when the drive is
mounted read-only and/or in runlevel 1.

My current hard drive is a Toshiba MK2016GAP[1], although the same problem
occurs to varying degrees with other hard drives I have tried in the same
laptop, and other OB500 laptops with different hard drives.  

The problem occurs in the 2.2 and 2.4 series, and I have a report that it
also occurs in the latest of the 2.5 series.

I have tried every possible combination of hdparm parameters that has
been publicly suggested.  Turning off dma (hdparm -d0) does remove the
"ide_dma" part, but the "lost interrupt" error and crash remain. Turning
on or off interrupt-unmask flag (hdparm -u0/1) makes no difference in the
error. Enabling PIO makes no difference either.

I have tried all possible combinations of APM_ALLOW_INTS and
IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE in compiling the kernel, with no apparent effect on
this problem.  

I have tried changing the apm events on suspend/resume to include various
hdparm switches suggested elsewhere, to no avail.  

Finally, these laptops all seem to perform fine when switching from power
to battery or suspending/resuming under various versions of MS Windows.  

I have checked out nearly every hit on google for "hda lost interrupt"
and have not found anything that worked.  

I have yet to find an OB500 on which this problem does *not* occur.

I hope this is enough information! Thanks for any troubleshooting
suggestions.
---
Adam Kessel (adam@bostoncoop.net)

[1] Here is the dmesg description of the drive:

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: TOSHIBA MK2016GAP, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB), CHS=2584/240/63, UDMA(33))