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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3690 comp.os.386bsd.questions:13757 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqvax!ccdanny From: ccdanny@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au (Danny Smith, Prentice Centre, The Univ. of Qld.) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] BT445C SCSI host: 'strayintr c' message - help! Date: 11 Oct 94 11:47:49 AEST Organization: University Of Queensland Lines: 37 Message-ID: <1994Oct11.114749.1@uqvax> References: <36i0fj$akc@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <36iiei$q04@newstand.syr.edu> <36io4a$lnk@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <miff.781674549@apanix.apana.org.au> Reply-To: D.Smith@cc.uq.oz.au NNTP-Posting-Host: uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au In article <miff.781674549@apanix.apana.org.au>, miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) writes: > jclf@kaiwan.com (Jason Fordham) writes: > >>I must say it's puzzling, though: _something_ was generating the 'strayintr >>c', and I guess that's now being caught by the bt driver. The kernel had >>decided (as the setup should have told it) that the 445C was using IRQ >>11, so where did the IRQ 12 signal come from? Should the bt driver be >>trapping it at all? > > 'c' is 12. The card was configured for 12. When the kernel started, the > BT driver registered itself for 11. When the BT driver talked to the card, > the card asserted IRQ 12. The kernel received the IRQ, but nothing was > registered for it, hence the 'strayintr' error. The BT driver had nothing > to do with 'c'. > > Hope that all makes sense 8) (transpose 'e' for 'c' and that's the problem > I had with my 34f and its default configuration) I just tried to install a system using a BT445s. The installation would continually fail at various points with "strayintr c" errors. After this happened, the installation would hang, and then it would get multiple errors trying to abort, and eventually bt0 stopped talking altogether. Mindful of what was said here, I ensured that the board was configured at IRQ11. This didn't help. Eventually, I borrowed an Adaptec 1542 and installed the system. Once the kernel was copied and the system rebooted, I could use the BT445s fine. I have no idea what was wrong, but it is working now. If anyone has some ideas, I would love to hear them. ========================================================================== Danny Smith | Phone: +61 7 365 4105 The Prentice Centre | Fax: +61 7 365 4477 The University of Queensland | Qld. 4072. Australia | Internet: D.Smith@cc.uq.edu.au