Re: Promise ATA/133 TX2 IDE Card - Linux 2.4.x driver problem.

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:54:17PM -0400, war wrote:
> It may be too early to speculate, however, I have received no spurious
> kernel messages with the first generation Promise ATA/100 board (so far).
> 
> I have another motherboard (MSI), with another Promise ATA/133 board
> (TX2), which also gives this spurious interrupts.
> 
> root@l1:/var/log# grep -i spurious *
> syslog.1:Jun 19 10:08:48 l1 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> syslog.2:Jun 12 09:33:07 l1 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> syslog.2:Jun 12 20:03:55 l1 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> syslog.2:Jun 14 06:42:23 l1 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> syslog.2:Jun 14 16:12:37 l1 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> syslog.3:Jun  3 09:27:44 l1 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> 
> Is there a particular problem with the ATA/133 TX2 boards, this
> error/problem seems to appear with box (that I've used) with this board
> (ATA/133 TX2).
> 
> Also, I've used the ATA/100 in another box for about a 2 year period
> without a single spurious interrupt message.
> 
> This leads me to believe there may be something wrong with the Promise
> ATA/133 TX2 driver for Linux?

Did you enable parallel port (lp) in BIOS, and in the kernel?  In my
experience this could happen if you do 2) and didn't do 1) ....

Promise uses exactly what IRQ?  You didn't told us.  I have 2 boxes with
Promises here (20265, 20267, yes I know older ones) and they use 10 and
12 respectively, without problems ...

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