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From: kketell@netcom.com (Kent Ketell)
Subject: Re: Stray Interrupt Errors while Installing
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:14:56 GMT
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In article <4nkrer$ubc@news1.sunbelt.net>, Barry Johnson <barry@carol.net> wrote:
>Hi folks,
> We have a P-100 with 2 Buslogic PCI SCSI cards in it.
>Off one hangs four hard-drives and off the other hangs the CD and
>tape drives.
>
>When we try to install BSDI2.1, we get stray interrupt errors from the
>kernal, and the install program can't see the CD.
>
>Has anyone encountered anything along these lines before? I hate
>to go shooting in the dark, when someone else has probably seen this...
>
>Thanks in advance...
>
>Barry Johnson
>
I had similar problems using the 946C controllers. After perusing the
Buslogic WWW pages I found a paper that said to use edge interrupts instead of
the level type. You have to set both the CMOS and the 946 to edge and the
spurious interrupts go away.
Give it a try. It worked for me.
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