> I recently tried to add a new card to my computer, and needed an IRQ...
> heres what happened:
[snip]>
> anyway.. as you can see I'mm preety well full and out of irq's except for 2
> and 9... which I think are video related...
>
> The thing I am adding NEEDS to be on irq 12 (ps2 style mouse port) so I
> seed to move ms scsi card... it can only take 9,10,11 or 12 if i move it to
> 9 linux cant find it... which is wierd... B/C win95 can.
>
> I get the following errors:
>
> Feb 11 22:40:26 spiff linux: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9,
> SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled,
> delay=100, extended translation=disabled
> Feb 11 22:40:26 spiff linux: aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> Feb 11 22:40:27 spiff linux: aha152x: IRQ 9 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> Feb 11 22:40:27 spiff linux: scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision:
> 1.7 $
> Feb 11 22:40:27 spiff linux: scsi : 1 host.
[snip]
> Feb 11 22:40:27 spiff linux: scsi : detected total.
>
> i tried moving my net card to 2 (the only other IRQ i was unsure of) and
> then moving my SCSI card to 11.... so NOTHING was on 9.... then when I
> rebooted linux it began to scream bloody murder about somthing on IRQ 9
> (yep 9 not a typo) the message was "Interupt 9: unknown device!" repeated
> forever. (or somthing to that effect... I was unable to do a copy/paste of
> it bc my system was unusable in that state)
I dont run scsi but my network card used to be on irq 2 which linux
translated to irq 9 and it all worked fine. I needed to jumper the
ethernet card to irq 2 and set its adr in rc.module (its an ne1000).
If if missed the irq jumper I got looping "...Interupt..." messages
very similar to yours but fixing the jumper solved it.
As I recall irq 2 is the cascade interrupt. The interrupts chips (?)
handle them in sets of 8 so 2 of these give you 16 interrupts but
it costs an interrupt to link them together and irq 2 is it... it
links the first 8 to the second 8 and the 'contact point' if you will,
on the second 8, is irq 9. Thats why linux sees the irq 9 when you
specify irq 2. My only thought is to see if a jumper might be off as
mine was. :-)
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John Heil
South Coast Software
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