From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Nov 5 11:22:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 315C537B418 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30423 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Nov 2001 19:22:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Nov 2001 19:22:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:22:18 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , , , Subject: Re: ahc(4) reports PCI parity error interrupt In-Reply-To: <20011105200905.A75146@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20011105131907.W29695-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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