From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 11:57:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA02325 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 11:57:48 -0800 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA02317 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 11:57:41 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id DAA12137; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:57:58 +0800 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:57:57 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Floppy disk and stray IRQ's Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've noticed the following errors show up through syslog whenever there is floppy disk activity: Apr 1 01:25:51 aries /kernel: stray irq 7 Apr 1 01:27:13 aries /kernel: stray irq 7 Apr 1 01:28:07 aries last message repeated 3 times Apr 1 01:28:07 aries /kernel: too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more I don't think I have anything on IRQ 7. The closest thing is the floppy drive controller, which is on IRQ 6: Mar 21 18:07:06 aries /kernel: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa Mar 21 18:07:06 aries /kernel: fdc0: (NEC 72065B) [0: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in] This is with the current 950322 snapshot on an ASUS PVI-486AP4 motherboard with only the 3.5" drive connected. I was formatting a few floppies when the stray IRQ messages popped up. BTW, someone mentioned that formatting a floppy in FreeBSD causes a jerky response while doing anything else. I was successfully playing two Quicktime movies concurrently with xanim 2.69.7.6 at full speed without any noticeable jerkiness while fdformat churned away on a 3.5". -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org