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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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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