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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,tw.bbs.comp.386bsd Subject: Re: /kernel stray irq7 ?? Date: 19 May 1996 12:22:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4nn3ph$1ii@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nhjs0$fmf@voyager.iii.org.tw> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E serge@autocar.org.tw (HSIAO Hsuei-cheng) wrote: > I use FreeBSD and modem to connect my ISP with a leased line, it works > fine, but sometimes it shows a error mesage like this > > /kernel stray irq 7 Stray irq's are explained in the handbook (or FAQ -- i forgot). Basically, it's crappy hardware. If the system hangs after this stray irq, i guess you've got a broken disk controller (so its actual interrupt got lost, leaving the system in an unusable state due to the failing disk transfers e.g. while doing paging I/O). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)