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From: krostrin@cats.ucsc.edu (Ken Ostrin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ISA strayintr 7 - please help!!
Date: 16 Nov 1993 17:02:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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In <CGL8xo.G09@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes:
>In article <1993Nov15.223956.12860@newstand.syr.edu>,
>Shawn M Carey <smcarey@rodan.syr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Um, I was able to take care of this message by configuring
>>my kernel without the lpa (interruptless printer driver) in both
>>386BSD and FreeBSD. I thought (someone coreect me if I'm wrong)
>>that the message is caused by the kernel receiving a message at
>>an interrupt that it's not expecting. Since the lpt device uses
>>irq7, the messages go away.
>>
>Strange to say, this solved the problem for me as well. After I read several
>postings on the subject that said 'there is nothing you can do about it other
>than comment out the error message', I figured that what I did might have
>nad nothing to do with the error going away.
>Anyone have any ideas as to why this worked for both Shawn and I?
> Regards,
> Jim
Actually, the problem in my case anyway was solved by changing the hard disk
controller?! I switched from a straight IDE controller to an IDE controller
with I/O and now it works fine...
strange
Ken
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