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From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: strayintr ff
Date: 25 Apr 1993 12:00:50 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes:

>   ISA strayintr 1ff
>   ISA strayintr 1ff
>   ISA strayintr 1ff
>   ISA strayintr ff
>   Too many ISA strayintr not logging any more

>Note that I've seen both 1ff and ff and no other values.  And
>they're not always in the same order.

>These are coming from isa.c in isa_strayintr().  There's also
>a big note from rgrimes stating that he's seen motherboards
>that generate lots of stray intr #7 s, and that this is due to
>bad hardware!

I didn't get a new mother board, I just upgraded to NetBSD.  386bsd .1+.2.2
gave me absolutely no ISA strayintr ff.  But with NetBSD, I get so many that
they are not logged anymore.  When I do a iostat, strayintr make up a substatial number of interupts.  I have a feeling that the error is in the kernel,
but I don't know...  Anyone else having this problem?  I also only get 
strayintr ff, no 1ff...  

-Greg Tanaka
glt@cco.caltech.edu
glt@ugcs.caltech.edu
glt@macross.caltech.edu (my rather unstable NetBSD host)