Very Computer

I am using Solaris 7, and I periodically receive this warning message in
my /var/adm/messages, that is, "  : WARNING: interrupt level 4 not
serviced".
Does anybody know what it means and how to get rid of it?

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Edward

It means you have a device generating interrupts and no driver installed to
handle that device.

Regards,

Pete Howell

Quote:> I am using Solaris 7, and I periodically receive this warning message in
> my /var/adm/messages, that is, "  : WARNING: interrupt level 4 not
> serviced".
> Does anybody know what it means and how to get rid of it?

Ignore it. Something to do with the IDE disk driver, but the fault is
pretty much only that that message is generated, not that anything *
is going wrong in the driver.

--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer

Try installing patch 107458.  There is a bug in the IDE driver which
causes spurious interrupts.

This topic has been covered several times both on the groups to which
this has been xposted and others.

--
Tony

This messge is my own opinion and does not constitute official support
from Sun Microsystems

        Just ignore it.  It is one of the many bugs in SOLARIS.  Happily
this one (unlike their NIS bugs) is harmless.  It is merely another
annoyance that SUN users deal with on a daily basis.  :-(

Quote:> Does anybody know what it means and how to get rid of it?

        Upgrade to a non-SOLARIS UNIX system such as IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, HP
HP-UX or COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX.

                        Hope this helps,
                              Don

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