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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:23:16 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        qa@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/42977: FreeBSD installer doesn't probe past EISA slot 10. Causes issues with NetServers.
Message-ID:  <20030722082104.W74931-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20030721214227.GA198@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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This is mentioned in LINT/NOTES already:

# By default, only 10 EISA slots are probed, since the slot numbers
# above clash with the configuration address space of the PCI subsystem,
# and the EISA probe is not very smart about this.  This is sufficient
# for most machines, but in particular the HP NetServer LC series comes
# with an onboard AIC7770 dual-channel SCSI controller on EISA slot #11,
# thus you need to bump this figure to 12 for them.
options         EISA_SLOTS=12

Maybe it should be mentioned in the Harware Notes for current releases,
including the workaround.

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au

        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/





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