Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 21:33:38 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dg@root.com Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyclades :( Message-ID: <199710301103.VAA00417@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 18:12:59 -0800." <199710300212.SAA01513@implode.root.com>
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> Cyclades is quite familiar with the driver in FreeBSD and > has done extensive testing with both the ISA and PCI product under FreeBSD. > They haven't seen any problems in their testing, but of course that doesn't > mean that a problem doesn't exist. The device driver for the PCI version is > the same driver that the ISA card uses, the only difference is that the PCI > front-end memory-maps the registers into the address space at device attach > time. There might be a hardware problem with the PCI interface that is causing > the reboots, but at the moment, there is insufficient information to diagnose > the problem further. I have not been able to reproduce the reboots here. I > suspect that it is going to take a PCI bus analyzer to figure this one out. If it's any help, I have seen problems with the Cyclades cards and at least one SiS chipset which resulted in very rapid system lockup. If it *is* the Cyclades card, the problem isn't so much Cyclades' as PLX's, as the Cyclades PCI interface is just a PLX9060. mike
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