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From: rim@bme.ri.ccf.org (Robert M. Cothren)
Subject: Re: The Stray Interrupt Problem (7) under NetBSD ?
In-Reply-To: fox@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 2 Feb 1994 15:28:26 GMT
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Sender: rim@bme.ri.ccf.org (Robert M. Cothren)
Organization: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 17:46:26 GMT
In article <2iogqq$d36@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) writes:
> From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
> Date: 2 Feb 1994 15:28:26 GMT
>
> In article <MYCROFT.94Jan30231828@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
> >
> >In article <1994Jan28.222149.12886@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
> >fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) writes:
> >
> > I have just installed an UltraStor 34f on my NetBSD box -
> > [...]
> > Problem is, when I actually plug the SCSI drive (a Seagate
> > 3600N 525 meg affair) in, with the 50 pin cable, and boot
> > up the machine, it finds everything, the 34f, the Seagate,
> > and then finds 'ISA strayintr 7' and stops dead.
> >
> >This should be fixed in NetBSD-current.
>
> Actually, I fixed the problem by moving the controller to IRQ 11,
> and disabliing my external cache....the folks at Gateway tech
> support determined that it was somehow flawed.....
Unfortunately, this did not fix the problem for me, despite a similar
hardware setup. I was recommended to switch to FreeBSD instead (since
this was my first installation rather than a hardware upgrade as with
Colin).
Does the above "should be fixed in NetBSD-current" mean "has been
fixed" or "will be fixed when current is released publicly"? If the
former, do you recommend that someone familiar with SunOS admin but
new to NetBSD try installing NetBSD-current? Or am I better off
staying with one of the public releases (NetBSD 0.9 or FreeBSD
whatever) instead?
Thanks.
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