From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 29 1: 4: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2977114D45 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:04:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 12155 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 1999 08:03:59 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 12118 invoked by uid 0); 29 Apr 1999 08:03:57 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 29 Apr 1999 08:03:57 -0000 Message-ID: <3728126D.D484DA8D@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:03:57 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joseph T. Lee" Cc: Kent Stewart , Michael Slater , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction (Unix vs NT) References: <21EF26FF9AD8D01180E9BA3BC10000000EA13A@george1.iexpress.net.au> <3715886E.E6888C7D@3-cities.com> <19990423180711.A14514@la.best.com> <37213B37.DFA11CCD@uswest.net> <19990428185244.A5435@la.best.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Joseph T. Lee" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:32:07PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > What do you have in that machine? I've got a sound card, NIC, 2 SIOs, > > LPT, USB, SCSI, single EIDE, AGP, and a PS/2 mouse all using IRQs and > > none of it is sharing. > > I have a 3Com 3C905B in slot 1, Creative PCI128 in slot 2, Creative Live! > in slot3, Creative DXR2 dvd decoder in slot 4, ASUS v3400TNT in AGP, all on > an ASUS P2B-S motherboard. > > I got the 2 sound cards, 1 nick, 2 SIOs (with nothing attached), LPT, > USB, U2W scsi, using only a single EIDE, AGP, PS/2 keyboard. > > Supposedly, on most 4 slot motherboards, slot 1 shares with AGP. In this > motherboard, slot 3 shares with any onboard NIC (none here), slot 4 shares > with SCSI and USB. Ah that's why. Got it, I don't have DVD or a second sound card, just the 3c905 NIC and my Live!. It'd stick more stuck in it, but Windoze doesn't like it when stuff shares IRQs--the NIC driver exception faults the video driver when the TCP/IP stack loads if they're IRQ sharing. Too bad I can't just run pure FreeBSD on this machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message