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From: jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Spurious interurupt - what is it?
Message-ID: <102@cjsa.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 14:09:32 GMT
References: <7770@alice.UUCP>
Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates - New Haven, CT
Lines: 21
Keywords: unix.log file
Summary: generally, it's the parallel printer

In article <7770@alice.UUCP>, wilber@alice.UUCP writes:
> What does
> 
>     Spurious interrupt - level 2
> 
> in the unix.log file mean?  I've been getting lots of these.

I believe that both the winchester and the parallel printer port can
generate this message.  Typically though, a couple of these messages get
logged each time you turn on/off the printer connected to the parallel port.
To see if this is the case,  empty out the /usr/adm/unix.log file and then
toggle your printer on/off.  Recheck the file and see if these messages
haven't been recorded.

I have been receiving from 4 to 20 of these messages a day for over
2 years without any adverse affects.

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