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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: The reason for stray interrupts Date: 27 Oct 1993 01:32:32 GMT Organization: The University of Waikato Lines: 31 Message-ID: <2akj3g$74n@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> References: <2ais9gINN2t8@xs4all.hacktic.nl> <wilko.751660652@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2ajv84$9r2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Jaye Mathisen (osyjm@cs.montana.edu) wrote: > In article <wilko.751660652@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>, > Wilko Bulte <wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl> wrote: > >Hmm, > > > >I have run *BSD on various systems, and I have still to find a system that > >does not complain about stray interrupts. And these systems were *not* > >bad hardware, they have run both AT&T and SCO Unix without any problems. > >(No comments on the virtues/vices of Sys V systems please). > DEC 386-16 and 386-20 sx's don't have the problem, I get 0 stray intr > messages on those machines. > On the other hand, the 486-24 that DEC made that was produced by Tandy does > have the problem. I have a no-name motherboard AMI bios, and a proprietry LB slot, that doesn't get stray interrupts either.... Neither did another motherboard from TMC (486 66Mhz, VLB) -- ====================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Systems Programmer | | | Computer Services | INTERNET h.marson@waikato.ac.nz | | University of Waikato | PHONE +64 7 8562889 xt 8181 | | New Zealand | FAX +64 7 8384066 | ===========Disclaimer :- Remember. You heard it here first.===========