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From: tcombs@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Tim Combs)
Subject: wdc0: extra interrupt
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I also got the extra interrupt problem while trying to install netbsd 0.9.  I have an ultrastore ESDI
controller 12F and a 376 megabyte Maxtor Disk.  It's set at 1412 cylinders, 15 heads and, 36 sectors
per track.  I turned off drive translation and set my BIOS to the above values.
During installation all goes well until it reaches the point of making the filesystems on the disk.
It displays the error message: wdc0:extra interrupt and promptly locks up the system.  After
waiting 15 minutes or so reading the latest Readers Digest with no response (from the system), 
I rebooted the system.  My DOS partition wasn't scrozzed so I assume, that wasn't overwritten.  I looked at the wd.c code and found the offending error message and it seems to be doing ioctl kinds of things to the disk. Any ideas?