From owner-aic7xxx Thu Apr 2 13:33:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07302 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:33:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from einstein.phy.duke.edu (root@einstein.phy.duke.edu [152.3.182.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07295 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:33:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgb@phy.duke.edu) Received: from ganesh.phy.duke.edu (rgb@ganesh.phy.duke.edu [152.3.183.52]) by einstein.phy.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22292; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:32:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (rgb@localhost) by ganesh.phy.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA01363; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:32:56 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: ganesh.phy.duke.edu: rgb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:32:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert G. Brown" To: Attila Karpati cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: 2.1.91 SMP and aic7xxx In-Reply-To: <199804021927.VAA01079@neumann.cs.elte.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Attila Karpati wrote: > The machine has 4 PCI slots full with 3 ethernet (tulip) cards and a VGA card. > The controller is an onboard one. Do you think it would help to rearrange the > > cards in this situation? How did you rearrange your cards? I don't think it could hurt, since it worked for me. How to best arrange your cards probably depends on your motherboard/bios combination. I learned that on a supermicro P6DLS, the onboard aic7881U shares an interrupt with PCI slot 4 (the one next to the AGP slot). I also learned empirically that either the bios or OS automatically force the Matrox Millenium II (PCI) card to share an interrupt with the aic7xxx regardless of its slot location (don't ask me why, this is empirical). It makes sense, then, to put it in slot 4 rather than sharing the interrupt 3 ways with the adaptec, the MMII, and a tulip. The combination that I had that wouldn't work had (as I recall) the MMII in slot 2 and the tulip in slot 1. Nearly anything else I tried worked, and I ended up with the MMII in 1 and the tulip in 3, mostly because I'm too tired of rebooting to shutdown and move the MMII to slot 4 when I have slots to burn. Be sure that your BIOS isn't reserving any of the interrupts for specific slots -- leave the BIOS free to negotiate and assign IRQ's on its own. Wish I could answer your other questions, but this solution is black magic to me as it is... rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message