A few weeks ago, I saw the above error message (kernel: hda: lost interrupt) many times in my logs. This device is used solely for backups with the BackupPC program ( When it happened, I couldn't even kill the BackupPC daemon with kill -KILL. My system wouldn't even reboot with a "shutdown -r now"; I had to physically pull the power. If I tried to "cd" to the device's mount point and do an "ls", it hung.
When I rebooted, added the device back in, and ran e2fsck (no problems detected), everything appeared to be fine. So I kept on using it. But now the messages are reappearing.
So, is this simply a faulty hard drive, or something wrong with this program? Is there a more thorough check I can run on the hard drive to test it? I am using Red Hat 7.3; it is an 80GB IBM 120GXP (IDE) using ext3 filesystem.
tia,
toby
When I rebooted, added the device back in, and ran e2fsck (no problems detected), everything appeared to be fine. So I kept on using it. But now the messages are reappearing.
So, is this simply a faulty hard drive, or something wrong with this program? Is there a more thorough check I can run on the hard drive to test it? I am using Red Hat 7.3; it is an 80GB IBM 120GXP (IDE) using ext3 filesystem.
tia,
toby