Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 09:01:33 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jlm@caamora.com.au> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: stray irq 7 Message-ID: <20010505090132.39571@caamora.com.au>
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hello all i've just gotten an iso cut off the freebsd v4.2-release (cdrom 1) i booted to do an install on a machine that has a pentium 166 processor ide hard-drive and slave cdrom. it has a 'noname' soundblaster clone (not recognised by freebsd) and 32 mb dram, oh and a tsenglabs et4000 video card ... an x11 workstation this is not going to be. i remember (mainly from -stable) a lot of chatter about stray irq's )mainly the irq 7 variant). at the moment i don not have internet access so i cannot easily search the archives on freebsd.org. from what i remember the issue was never satisfactorily resolved. is a stray irq (esp 7, given that i have no printer attached, nor do i plan to) an impediment to reliable performance ? it is an annoyance to know that it is there .. is that all it is, an annoyance ??? incase it matters the machine runs ms win 95 flawlessly, ibm os/2 boots without any complaints and the old landmark diagnostics kit gives this machine a clean bill of health. also openbsd v2.6 boots finds all the hardware and no complaints about stray anythings. i've used freebsd since v2.0.5-release, when the network is again functioning properly (after this machine gets installed) it will be a 3 machine 'intranet' with a tempramental graphics workstation making a 4th when i can be bothered to tinker with the beastie. suggestions one liners, thoughts, pointers would be most appreciated. sorry, about the lack of "diagnostics" output, one if the quirks this machine displays it that freebsd thinks that the floppy disk is a 2.88 mb floppy diskette drive running in 1.44 mb mode and i cannot read or write floppy diskettes (ms windows also has trouble reading/writing to this drive as well, for some unspecified reason. also openbsd makes much the same noises (2.88 mb floppy in 1.44 mb mode). i've turned off pnp os and a couple of other ms win dos shell and ms win nt operating system things (all tested with the openbsd v2.6 bootable cdrom, to see if it still works, as expected). freebsd has various degrees of success ranging from no boot at all to booting from cdrom and complaining (in the emergency holographic shell) about this stray irq 7 .. ps the sysinstall seems to be working well and doing the things it is asked to do in the order asked. am i fretting needlessly, or is this something that needs to be seen to before it "becomes an issue" sort of thing. with regards and thanks fro your time. jonathan please excuse my spelling, its not real good, there are medical reasons for it being this bad. well, most of the time (sort of grin) -- ================================================================ Jonathan Michaels http://www.caamora.com.au PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 suffering construction anxiety ============================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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