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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sio3: 64 events for device with no tp Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:50:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5ctt0b$3ps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc0ad5$8e956b00$1d9f09ce@win95.soncom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34978 "Patrick Sonnek" <psonnek@soncom.com> wrote: > nancy /kernel: sio3: 64 events for device with no tp > sio3 is at the standard com4 address with IRQ 7 (I have no printers, or any > other device which could be causing IRQ duplication, and FreeBSD seems to > be able to detect duplicate IRQ's.) This is a hidden incarnation of the well-known ``stray IRQ7'' problem. Basically, caused by crappy hardware that issues IRQ spikes. Probably nothing to worry much of, as long as things run well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)