Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:22:18 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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: <20011105131907.W29695-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20011105200905.A75146@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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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. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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