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From: gnn@cs.utwente.nl (George Neville-Neil)
Subject: Re: strayintr ff
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 17:24:02 GMT
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glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) writes:

>I didn't get a new mother board, I just upgraded to NetBSD.  386bsd .1+.2.2
>gave me absolutely no ISA strayintr ff.  But with NetBSD, I get so many that
>they are not logged anymore.  When I do a iostat, strayintr make up a substatial number of interupts.  I have a feeling that the error is in the kernel,
>but I don't know...  Anyone else having this problem?  I also only get 
>strayintr ff, no 1ff...  

I'm getting these as well on a Compaq Contura laptop running NetBSD.

The happen more often with higher speeds on com0 as far as I can tell.

Later,
George

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