From: pan@athena.mit.edu (Howard Wei-Hao Pan) Subject: Re: 'floppy: unexpected interrupt' on SLS .99p8 Date: 18 Apr 1993 16:01:27 GMT
ke@doc.ic.ac.uk (K Evangelinos) wrote:
>I recently FTP'ed and tried to use the SLS version of Linux. I booted the A1
>disk, and fed A2 later. Once booted, I tried to see the /user/README file.
>While my more waits for keys, I get messages saying 'floppy: unexpected
>interrupt' while the floppy drive doesn't (apparently) do anything. I thought
>switching the turbo off might stop it, but on the contrary, things seem to
>get worse.
>
>After a *lot* of attempts (the drive seems to lose sync when this appears
>while it is working, causing errors), I managed to get most of the Base
>Section to install on my hard disk. I created the second booting floppy,
>and the same familiar message appears again on my screen whan I boot Linux.
>It even appears at the prompt sometimes. Any ideas?
>
>My system is a 486-33 w/105MB HD and a Trident 8900c card.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Kostas.
Hmmn...that's really weird. I was installing Linux last night on my laptop, and
got this message too. (That was with version 0.99p6 I believe). However, the
"floppy: unexpected interrupt" message only appeared when I was not connected
to an AC adapter--so I presumed it was because the system was trying to
conserver power by sending power down signals to the floppy drive or something
or another. But since you were getting it on your desktop, I'm beginning to
wonder why that is.