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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:09:47 +1030
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Totem TX chipset motherboard 
Message-ID:  <199801300539.QAA02334@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:18:52 -0800." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129211726.1248d-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> 

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> Recommended course of action of pruning this cc: ?

Put it on -hardware, where it belongs.

> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > Can people *please* identify and report the I/O device on these failing 
> > boards?  If you need help in working out which one it is, please ask.  
> > It is unlikely in the extreme that there is anything wrong with the 
> > timing, as the PCI-ISA bridge is configured by the BIOS and not changed 
> > by FreeBSD.
> 
> Mike, if you're taking charge of this, I'll forward you any msgs I get
> from -questions on it.  

If you can poke the questioners to identify the I/O chipsets and report 
the results of setting the 0x80 flags in the probe, I would be much 
obliged.

> I've seen 10+ messages flow by on -questions in the past year or so with
> this problem.

I'm sure there are more people having it and just giving up.  Even 
technically competent individuals like Greg seem to find the few steps 
involved to be "too hard".

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\ 





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