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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:58:58 +0930 (CST)
From:      Lucas James <jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
Cc:        FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Floppy disk and stray IRQ's
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950408135644.201G@ldjpc.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950401034756.1567M-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>

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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




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