Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:57:57 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Floppy disk and stray IRQ's Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950401034756.1567M-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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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.
BTW, someone mentioned that formatting a floppy in FreeBSD causes
a jerky response while doing anything else. I was successfully
playing two Quicktime movies concurrently with xanim 2.69.7.6 at full
speed without any noticeable jerkiness while fdformat churned away on
a 3.5".
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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