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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!ub!netfs.dnd.ca!rads.dnd.ca!usenet From: robinson@rads.dnd.ca (Ken Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: BAD strayintr 7 Date: 14 Apr 1994 13:32:35 GMT Organization: NR/NS Inc. Kanata, Ontario, Canada Lines: 55 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ojglj$gsp@rads.dnd.ca> Reply-To: robinson@rads.dnd.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: rads.dnd.ca Hello all. I'm installing NetBSD 0.9 and I am getting a LOT of strayintr 7's on my system which lock the system up on me. (Locks out the HD (IRQ 14)). I've read the FAQ, it says to ignore them. I can't, one hit (I get one every few minutes) and my system is gone. If I get one during the bootup, my system locks up. If I manage to boot, and get one later, it locks out my SCSI controller which eventually times out, and the system reboots. As the FAQ suggests, I implemented the lpt (and lpa's) drivers to see about it trapping the IRQ 7s. The driver shows up during bootup, on INT 7, but I still get strayintr 7 and lockups a few seconds later. I'm out of ideas, so I am turning to you. Here are the particulars on my system. 486-66VL, 256K cache. I don't know who's motherboard it is, but there is a chip labeled PC CHIP. The machine is sold by a Canadian company called IPC. It has a AMI Bios, 11/11/92. The system is just over 7 months old. I have a UltraStor 34F SCSI controller with 1 HD on the system right now (A Maxtor 7245s). I also have a ATI GUP Pro VL with 2 megs of VRAM. I am using a WD SMC Combo card, with thin ethernet connected. If I can boot the system up, the ethernet does work. The only other card in the system is a Multi I/O card with 2s, 1p, 1g, floppy and IDE. Everything is disabled except the 1p, and floppy. I have tried an alternate Multi I/O card with the same results. I've run both DOS and OS/2 2.1 on this system. Any solutions? I have no problems with converting to NetBSD-current, or FreeBSD or Linux IF one of them will fix this problem. I would perfer to stick with the NetBSD OS though. Thanks. I will keep an eye on this newsgroup, but please also CC to my email address of robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca. --- Ken Robinson NRNS Incorporated e-mail: robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca, ken@mystic.ocunix.on.ca I am under the opinion that my opinions are my own opinions, but that is just my opinion.