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From: yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau)
Subject: Re: wd0 : extra interrupt (???)
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 21:08:57 GMT
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In article <1993Sep17.161944.20641@leland.Stanford.EDU>, yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) writes:
|> In article <27cfp6$c1n@hermes.uni-konstanz.de>, zh@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de (Z. Horvat) writes:

|> |> I'm trying to install NetBSD-0.9
|> |> and have already tried two completely different
|> |> hard disks and two different IDE-Controllers.
|> 
|> You do know that you can put two IDE drives on an IDE controller.  Of
|> course, this assumes that the two IDE drives are compatible with each
|> other (drives from different manufacturers sometimes have problems
|> coexisting on the same controller).

Oops!  I misread his comments.  I thought he was trying two different
drives on two different controllers simultaneously (i.e. using the
multiple controller capabilities of the barsoom driver).  

An occasional "extra interrupt" is OK.  You will probably see a couple
near bootup (during fsck and the check for a core dump).  If they are
spewing at you continuously or whenever the disk is accessed, then you
have serious problems (but you would definitely know that).

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Dan Yergeau                         You are in a twisty little passage
yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU        of standards, all conflicting.
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