From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 8:22:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.umr.edu (mrelay1.cc.umr.edu [131.151.1.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B6037B402 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:22:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from ultra15.cs.umr.edu (daemon@ultra15.cs.umr.edu [131.151.6.64]) via ESMTP by mrelay1.cc.umr.edu (8.12.1/) id g0BGMeOT013968; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:22:40 -0600 Received: (from thill@localhost) by ultra15.cs.umr.edu (8.12.1/8.12.0.Beta7) id g0BGMdYA013871; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:22:39 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:22:39 -0600 From: Dan Thill To: Robert Suetterlin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System hangup depends on PCI slot used for PromiseU100TX2. Message-ID: <20020111102239.A13610@umr.edu> References: <20020111152709.GF159@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <20020111152709.GF159@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de>; from robert@mpe.mpg.de on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:27:09AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I tried one last thing and plugged the promise controller into > a different PCI slot. Now the machine boots ok. > Can someone please explain this to me? I will try no other > configurations until I know why this happens, but unfortunately the > slot I use now is my 64bit PCI Slot which I wanted to use for a > gigabit NIC... so if possible I would like to reslot the promise > controller. I had this happen while trying to get a NIC and a modem to co-exist. It had to do with the way the BIOS shared IRQs between certain slots. Most BIOS'es also have user-definable IRQ settings for slots. By toying with these, you may get somewhere. -dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message