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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon!ames!onramp.arc.nasa.gov!usenet From: lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Tom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Unexpected Interupt irq6 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 04:00:29 GMT Organization: Lone Tree Works Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4kcnei$55p@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> References: <4i8uah$p2o@news.bt.net> Reply-To: lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: arc-tac2-slip5.nsi.nasa.gov X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 davidL@sisl.co.uk (Lyndon David) wrote: >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. There may be something wrong/omitted in the floppy driver with 2.1, not necessarily a problem with your hardware. IRQ 6 is the floppy interrupt, and your machine may be reporting the insertion or removal of a disk or the disk's parameters, and 2.1 may not recognize the cause or nature of the interrupt request.