From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 17:30:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10736 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from canonware.com (canonware.com [206.184.206.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA10722 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: (qmail 15410 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Jul 1998 00:31:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jul 1998 00:31:30 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:31:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Evans To: Shawn Holwegner cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tyan Tomcat DMA and IRQ woes. In-Reply-To: <19980713160444.B3383@holwegner.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shawn Holwegner wrote: > I have recently aquired a Tyan Tomcat II Dual Pent. MB. Looks nice, > wish I could say it works the same: I am having no end to troubles with it > in regards to DMA and IRQ timeouts. I have set the Award BIOS to 'manually > controlled resources' as opposed to PnP (evil, wish I knew about this before). > > The odd part is: everyting bloody well works fine until the kernel > attempts to probe the IRQs/DMAs. It will read absolutely everything, even > report ATAPI status on the CDROM and single IDE drive within (IBM DHEA EIDE), > but a simple disklabel has it locking up (an attempt to boot from 3.0-SNAP, > May 24, 1998 will cause it to panic, init dies and jordy's graphic laden > fiend of an install program resets the box. Well, I've installed the same snapshot on the same board with 2 166MHz CPUs on it, 64 MB RAM, a couple of EIDE drives, and assorted junk parts. It works fine for me. I did nothing special to the BIOS to make it work. Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Web: [http://www.canonware.com/~jasone] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Work phone: [(408) 774-8007] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message