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From: davidL@sisl.co.uk (Lyndon David)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Unexpected Interupt irq6
Date: 14 Mar 1996 11:01:37 GMT
Organization: Secure Information Systems Ltd
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Dear All,

I have just loaded 2.1 onto a p100 with a Triton chipset. This
seems to work just fine other than every time I access the floppy
I get an error message to syslog saying it received an unexpected
interupt on irq6. I have changed the floppy, no difference. I changed
the bios from Award to AMI and back, no difference.

Can anyone help? I dont understand enough about the interupt
mechanism of PCI to know how interupts are assigned. The Award
bois has a PCI configuration page where it talks about mapping
interupts from the PCI. These interupts it refers to as A-F. Is
this just hex for the interupt number or something else.

If someone could point me to a source of information on how PCI
works then I would be very happy.

Thanks

Lyndon