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From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: The Stray Interrupt Problem (7) under NetBSD ?
Date: 2 Feb 1994 15:28:26 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2iogqq$d36@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <1994Jan28.222149.12886@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <MYCROFT.94Jan30231828@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <MYCROFT.94Jan30231828@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>In article <1994Jan28.222149.12886@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
>fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) writes:
>
>   I have just installed an UltraStor 34f on my NetBSD box - 
>   [...]
>   Problem is, when I actually plug the SCSI drive (a Seagate
>   3600N 525 meg affair) in, with the 50 pin cable, and boot 
>   up the machine, it finds everything, the 34f, the Seagate, 
>   and then finds 'ISA strayintr 7' and stops dead.
>
>This should be fixed in NetBSD-current.

Actually, I fixed the problem by moving the controller to IRQ 11, and 
disabliing my external cache....the folks at Gateway tech support 
determined that it was somehow flawed.....

No more strayint for me!

Cheers. Colin.

-- 
Colin Bradley
fox@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Some assembly required.