From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 7 22:17:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA29237 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 22:17:09 -0700 Received: from seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (seldon.apanix.apana.org.au [192.203.213.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA29184 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 22:15:38 -0700 Received: from ldjpc.apana.org.au (ldjpc.apana.org.au [192.203.213.254]) by seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA08997; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 14:44:20 +0930 Received: (from jj@localhost) by ldjpc.apana.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA24332; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:58:59 +0930 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:58:58 +0930 (CST) From: Lucas James To: Brian Tao cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: Floppy disk and stray IRQ's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Brian Tao wrote: > I've noticed the following errors show up through syslog whenever > there is floppy disk activity: > Apr 1 01:25:51 aries /kernel: stray irq 7 > Apr 1 01:27:13 aries /kernel: stray irq 7 > Apr 1 01:28:07 aries last message repeated 3 times > Apr 1 01:28:07 aries /kernel: too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more > I don't think I have anything on IRQ 7. The closest thing is the > floppy drive controller, which is on IRQ 6: > Mar 21 18:07:06 aries /kernel: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > Mar 21 18:07:06 aries /kernel: fdc0: (NEC 72065B) [0: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in] > > This is with the current 950322 snapshot on an ASUS PVI-486AP4 > motherboard with only the 3.5" drive connected. I was formatting a > few floppies when the stray IRQ messages popped up. Ummm... the only thing I have on irq 7 is the first parrallel port (which will generate irq7 even if you don't have a driver for it) The other thing possibly on irq 7 would be a sound card. -- Lucas James jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au