Subject: Re: two questions
To: None <klee@rdcclink.rd.qms.com>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@entropic.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/28/1994 15:21:10
>     I have been running NetBSD 1.0Beta(Aug 1) and XFree86 2.1.1 for a 
>     while.  Yesterday, I have decided to partition my second hard drive as 
>     a backup system, just in case the system on my first drive crashes.  I 
>     have partitioned to have root, swap, user space and also DOS partition 
>     as well.  I have disklabeled, newfsed and cped kernel plus few other 
>     things.  When I rebooted the system, the system changes the root to 
>     wd1a, but gave me strayintr 7 error message.  I ignored the message, 
>     and it continued to do fsck.  What is this strayintr 7 mean?  
>     Everything else works fine.  I could mount /dev/wd0a and /dev/wd0e for 
>     reading and writing.

The strayintr 7 message means that an interrupt got raised and lowered before
the CPU could acknowledge it (look at the comments in isa_strayintr() in
sys/arch/i386/isa/intr.c).  If your system works fine then you can safely
ignore it (that message isn't logged after the 5th one).

>     I, then, switched to system on first drive and mounted /dev/wd1a.  It 
>     also gave me strayintr 7 error message.  Also, when I ran swapinfo 
>     command, it gave me /dev/??  It used to give me partition name(wd0b) 
>     when I had system on only one drive.  Again, everything seem to work 
>     fine.  What does this mean?

you're running the old swapinfo binary from 0.9; it doesn't exist under 1.0.
"pstat -s" is the functional equivalant.

--Ken