From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 08:32:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA14268 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 May 1995 08:32:25 -0700 Received: from mercury.unt.edu (mercury.unt.edu [129.120.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA14262 for ; Wed, 24 May 1995 08:32:23 -0700 Received: from gab.unt.edu by mercury.unt.edu with SMTP id AA20102 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 24 May 1995 10:32:05 -0500 Received: from GAB/MAILQUEUE by gab.unt.edu (Mercury 1.13); Wed, 24 May 95 10:32:07 CST6CDT Received: from MAILQUEUE by GAB (Mercury 1.13); Wed, 24 May 95 10:31:57 CST6CDT From: "John Booth" Organization: University of North Texas To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:31:49 CST6CDT Subject: Re: ** Problem with 3com EL III + Intel Plato + aha2940/Sea Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: <5B932652DD@gab.unt.edu> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ** Problem with 3com EL III + Intel Plato + aha2940/Seagate3240 ** > When I set Etherlink (or SMC Elite) irq corrrectly the hard drive > stops/hangs after message > "changing root device to sd0a" > If the Etherlink/SMC Elite irq is not correct (10) disk works OK. Does the Plato have PCI slots? If so, you need to go into the CMOS setup and tell the motherboard that the irq you are assigning to the 3com card is used by an ISA card. Otherwise the motherboard is likely to assign IRQ 10 to the 2940 controller. I've encountered this with the Intel Premiere motherboards...likely to happen on any PCI motherboards. The motherboard manual probably sates this somewhere-- the downfall of leaping, then reading ;). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- College of Arts & Sciences Computing Services John A. Booth, john@gab.unt.edu