From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 11 0:57: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A936737B405; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:56:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16DiiW-0004ai-00; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:56:48 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by pampa.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 16DiiV-000AEf-00; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:56:47 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Bernd Walter , Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: irq In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:37:52 PST." <3C15A9C0.4E2901C3@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:56:47 +0200 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, if it's not software it must be hardware problem (true or false ?) the test: video capture (using a modified meteor driver) doing full size 24bit colour, the meteor would complain about FIFO errors (which probably mean that the dma did not finish in time - correct?) and sometimes, the adaptec would also complain. so i moved cards around. 1st try: disaster, the adaptec realy complained, had to reboot. 2nd try: Success, fifo errors are down to less than .1% (before it used to be 90%). danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message