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Date:      Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:29:01 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ahc(4) reports PCI parity error interrupt
Message-ID:  <20011105212901.A67746@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20011105131907.W29695-100000@achilles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:22:18PM -0600
References:  <20011105200905.A75146@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20011105131907.W29695-100000@achilles.silby.com>

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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:22:18PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> > > Soren has said in the past that some companies only apply the patch if a
> > > SB Live is detected.  You may wish to try pulling in the patch from
> > > ata-pci.c (look for "VIA '686b southbridge fix applied\n") and see if it
> > > helps you at all.
> >
> > I have not yet tried this yet. But I tried something else
> > (my EE genes made me try this):
> >
> > - I moved the Brooktree TV card from the slot furthest from the AGP
> >   video card to the PCI slot closest to it.
> >
> > Interestingly enough this made all the PCI errors go away, I ran continous
> > buildworlds overnight, in parallel with continuous 'dd's of da0 and ad0,
> > in parallel with fxtv.
> >
> > All of this ran without a hitch. Interesting..
> >
> > W/
> > --
> > |   / o / /_  _   		email: 	wilko@FreeBSD.org
> > |/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte		Arnhem, The Netherlands
> 
> Hm... I was at a talk once where an HP EE mentioned that pci slots should
> be filled in order due to capacitance and timing issues.  I didn't pay
> much attention to that, perhaps I should follow that layout in the future.
> I really don't like putting cards near the overly warm AGP video card
> though... oh well.

Well, all my PCI slots are filled ;). The VGA is a Matrox G200 which
is not a house heater.

Wilko
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|   / o / /_  _   		email: 	wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte		Arnhem, The Netherlands	

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