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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nl.compuware.com!usenet From: Kuiper.Marcel@uniface.nl (Marcel Kuiper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Re: PANIC WHY Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 11:37:04 GMT Organization: Compuware Uniface Amsterdam Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5foul0$3i8@news.nl.compuware.com> References: <5fmji4$rpc@news.nl.compuware.com> <5fnmno$282@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: c566.nl.compuware.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36682 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >There's also an ISA bus line for it (IOCHCK). It's normally supposed >to be distinguishable from a memory parity error, but if the chipset >has botched this, there's a chance that it will be misinterpreted. >I've also seen a notebook where NMI is raised at a powerfail. (See >options ``POWERFAIL_NMI''.) >-- >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. ;-) I must say that under NetBSD 1.2 the system reports "lpt0: out of paper" messages on the console, without having a printer connected, so I suspect some abberant hardware is generating interrupts. But why is thid redirected to IRQ 7 here?? Does it have something to do with this IOCHCK signal?? Have you got some pointers to documentation about these matters?? Many thanks Marcel marcel_kuiper@nl.compuware.com