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From: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Spurious interurupt - what is it?
Keywords: unix.log file
Message-ID: <56@tarkus.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 88 15:42:21 GMT
References: <7770@alice.UUCP> <102@cjsa.UUCP>
Reply-To: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Organization: tarkus -- Calumet City, IL.
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In article <102@cjsa.UUCP> jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small) writes:
>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

If you find that it is your printer causing the problem you should be
able to get rid of it by making sure you do a "disable" *before* you
power it down and an "enable" *after* you power it up.
Power cycling my printer without doing this used to crash my 3b1 every
once in a while. It never happens any more and I never get messages like
you described in my log file.
-- 
John "C" Sucilla
{ihnp4}!tarkus!jcs

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