Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:40:45 +0200 (SAST) From: Michael Raff <raff@ElectroCity.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stray irq 7 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101190034270.1149-100000@Crystal.ElectroCity.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010118165305.02eb76a0@mail.etinc.com>
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Hi This message popped up infrequently on my FreeBSD 3.x as well. It is not specific to 4.x. Now that I run 4.2, I still get the message once in a while. The fact that other OSs don't report the condition does not mean it does not occur. I had a NT box that was slow as hell. I eventually put FreeBSD on it and my logs were full of hardware errors. After correcting the hardware the box ran like a dream. Under NT I had no idea what was wrong as it didn't bother reporting the condition. Michael On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dennis wrote: > > > > > > > > What exactly is the hardware problem..and if you've identified it why is > > > there no simple workaround after all this time (or is there)? > > > >You should read the i8259 datasheet, or the datasheet for any device > >embedding a macrocell which emulates it, and once you read the section on > >spurious interrupts all should become clear. > > Ok, so why is this only a problem in FreeBSD 4.x, or better yet, since its > a well known problem, why arent they handled more eloquently? > > Or did someone just decide it was a neat idea to spit information onto the > screen about a condition that you cant do anything about? Previous versions > of freebsd dont complain with the same hardware, nor do other OS's. > > Dennis > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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