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Date:      Wed, 24 May 1995 08:53:04 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: ** Problem with 3com EL III + Intel Plato + aha2940/Seagate3240 ** 
Message-ID:  <199505241553.IAA14593@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 95 14:24:50 %2B0300." <v01510103abe8bd34b739@[130.234.41.39]> 

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>Hi!
>
>** 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.
>
>Seppo
>
>=FreeBSD 2.0-950412-SNAP
>
>U of Jyvaskyla
>=46inland

You most likely have the 3Com or SMC sitting on the same IRQ as the
2940 controller.  FreeBSD allows shared IRQs only when all devices
using that IRQ are on the PCI bus, and the bus uses level sensitive 
interrupts.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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