wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:

   I get these too.  It seems that there are some IDE controllers that just
   are like that, they send interrupts that the HD driver code in Linux
   doesn't expect, so it complains.  Everything seems to work very well
   anyway (at least it does on my machine), so the kernel reports are only
   a nuisance.  Whenever I install a new kernel I comment out the two lines
   in kernel/blk_drv/hd.c that print these messages.  (Partly because of
   this I haven't used a precompiled kernel since the first installation.
   :)

I'm not sure, but for me it looks like every time I get these messages,
all(?) buffers are flushed to the disk. I just got the 0.97 kernel source,
so I'll do the same comment -trick (thnx for the info).
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