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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stray IRQs )-:
Date: 24 Jul 1995 11:29:50 +0200
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>I've never seen this happening on my home computer (with no network card
>whatsoever), al it has is a modem, and the ever seen mouse (I do not have
>X installed). And today, I noticed a kernel message on the screen:
> stray IRQ 7
>
>What is stray IRQ? What is it caused by? Thank you!
I'm sure it's covered by the FAQ, so i'll make it short here: a spike
on some interrupt line, so the PIC didn't get time to prioritize the
IRQ and sent out an IRQ 7 (or IRQ 15 for the slave PIC) instead.
Generally caused by poor hardware (e.g. IDE, Floppy), and nothing you
want to care much for as long as your system is running well despite
of those messages.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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