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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:28:05 +0100 (CET)
From:      Ronald van Loon <rvloon@motif.xs4all.nl>
To:        tanvir@mail.org
Cc:        aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IRQ 9 is a bad choice?
Message-ID:  <199802121928.UAA02053@motif.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <34E347E9.BCF071DC@mail.org> from Tanvir Hassan at "Feb 12, 98 11:05:13 am"

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|"I have been having problems with my aha2940au and I noticed that it
|"shares its IRQ 9 with a couple of other devices (EGA (with my Diamond
|"Stealth 200 pro) and the normal cascade with IRQ 2).
|"
|"My machine in Win95 mode locks up after about a day of uptime.  My linux
|"also locks up mostly after heavy disk access.
|"
|"Is IRQ9 a bad choice for the SCSI controller?

Yes. It's usually a bad idea to share IRQs with a videocard anyway. I have
heard testimony from other people as well. 

Ronald van Loon  - Motif++  Maintainer (motif++-request@motif.xs4all.nl)
                 - ALW List Maintainer (alw-request@motif.xs4all.nl)

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