From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 08:53:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA14603 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 May 1995 08:53:08 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA14593 ; Wed, 24 May 1995 08:53:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199505241553.IAA14593@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ** Problem with 3com EL III + Intel Plato + aha2940/Seagate3240 ** In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 95 14:24:50 +0300." Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 08:53:04 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================