From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 11:40:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22226 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emi.net (emi.net [208.10.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22206 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com) Received: from nt (tc1-11.emi.net [208.10.129.27]) by emi.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA07563; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:31:10 -0400 Message-Id: <199810211631.MAA07563@emi.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Bill Hamilton" , "freebsd questions" Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:39:08 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: stray irq Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:41:23 -0500, Bill Hamilton wrote: >I get a message randomly about "stray irq 15". >It can happen while I'm in vi or whatever. >Where is it coming from and how do I fix it? IRQ 15 is normally reserved for the second IDE controller. If you have a modern motherboard, you may have a second IDE controller and you might not have an drives hooked up to it. If so, go into the BIOS and disable the Secondary IDE controller. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message