From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 15 14:38:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EFF37BA29 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA53029; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:22:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:22:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Sheldon Hearn , "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: i386/2598: ep0 in eisa mode hangs if ep0-device (isa) is enabled In-Reply-To: <01BF8E89.8BF95420.tedm@ipinc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Hmmm - I didn't think that the 509 would even work in eisa mode at all > in the isa bus - one of the traps with that card was that if it was > configed in eisa mode and you didn't have an eisa machine around to > unconfig it in you were hosed. I'll find out if this is the case or not when I do my testing on the fixes I'm working on for this problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew N. Dodd [SMTP:winter@jurai.net] > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 7:22 AM > To: Sheldon Hearn > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: i386/2598: ep0 in eisa mode hangs if ep0-device (isa) is enabled > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > My take on your explanation ofthis problem is that the simple solution > > is to simply refrain from configuring the card for EISA mode. Is it > > that simple? > > Actually it sounds like he's using a 3c509 in EISA mode in a non-EISA > machine. > > It sounds like the EISA bus code isn't checking to see if a card is > enabled or not before it attaches it. (checks) Yep, thats it. > > -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message