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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whining and complaining (example)
Date: 2 Aug 1995 17:37:31 +0200
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:

> Well, my 3c509
>card was kind of working, but for mysterious reasons was causing
>stray IRQs (#7 and 15), was very slow, and those massive IRQs were
>making the whole thing slow as XT.

Looks like the ideas of the card and the kernel about which IRQ to use
do not match.

I guess other systems do override the hardware setting while FreeBSD
does not.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)