Subject: Re: NMI / hanging
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@informatics.muni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/29/1995 12:54:50
> I had gotten a NMI once before that I have record of:
>    Nov 20 19:04:11 solstice /netbsd: NMI port 61 a0, port 70 ff

It's parity error in memory; standard PC motherboards indicate 
parity errors by setting the most significat bit of 0x61 port to 1 
and generating NMI.

> I know it's a non-maskable interrupt, but I don't know what's
> causing it.  I'm hoping someone here has an idea, and can tell
> me what, of my hardware, is broken.

Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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