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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rutgers!fdurt1.fdu.edu!sun490.fdu.edu!brian From: brian@sun490.fdu.edu (Brian Domenick) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD - Extra Interupts Message-ID: <1993Dec2.043256.8891@sun490.fdu.edu> Date: 2 Dec 93 04:32:56 GMT Organization: Fairleigh Dickinson University Lines: 40 I have a bit of a problem with my NetBSD configuration and I have seen other posts mention the same error message "extra interupts" . Can anyone explain what causes this error message to appear on boot up or how to correct it ? Any assistance you could give me would be appreciated. I have two disk controllers and adaptec 1542c scsi and an Ultrastore 12f (ESDI). I boot NetBSD 0.9 off the scsi (whole disk dedicated to netbsd). I have a 330 meg ESDI drive on on the Ultrastore controller. I have it partitioned into two partitions an MSDOS and a NetBSD Filesystem. I am only using the first 1024 cylinders of the Ultrastore drive. I have a,b,c and d partitions which point to the netbsd partition. I am only using the a partition. I use the h partition for MSDOS. I can access both partitions (mount and ls for example work ok). My problem is I get an Extra Interupts error on boot up. I have also seen the error when I go to write to the NetBSD Partition on the ESDI drive. I usually crash the machine when I have a program generate output to go to the ESDI drive to test it for instance. My IRQ's are set as in the INSTALL_NOTES in the NetBSD Distribution. I believe the disk partitioning is good since I have successfully newfsed my NetBSD partion and fsck it and everything seems fine. I ran my machine with just the scsi drive for a month with no wd device in the kernal and I never had a problem or saw the Extra Interupts message. The problem started when I compiled the Wd0 device in the kernal. I was just using the ESDI drive for MSDOS up to that point. My friend has a 386 and a 486 also, with either dual or single IDE drives on each. We tried both configs and he also gets an Extra interupts message when booting. Any Ideas, recommendations or solutions? thanks in advance, Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian D. Domenick brian@yoda.fdu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------