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From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
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To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, jinouye@cse.ogi.edu
Subject: Re: IRQ assignment for PII motherboards
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This is no a real BIOS problem. Two ways to solve it:
(1)	boot -c
	irq xxx #
xxx is either your SCSI or Ethernet devices name
# is any non-shared irq.

(2) recompile your kernel. Please refer the freebsd manual.

-Jin

>We just received two machines using Pentium II motherboards
>(Intel PD440FX) with AMI BIOS 1.00.04.DT0.  The problem is the
>BIOS configures the PCI SCSI and Ethernet devices to share the
>same IRQ.  While WindowsNT device drivers appear to have no problem
>with this (IRQ sharing is part of the PCI spec), some Linux and FreeBSD
>drivers do.  There are some free IRQs, but the BIOS assignment appears
>to be non-user-configurable.  I've looked for a SCU (System Configuration
>Utility) program for this motherboard on the Intel developers web
>site without success. Moving boards around and disabling the COM, USB,
>and LPT devices didn't help either.
>
>The current solution is removing the SCSI controller and going with
>an IDE disk.  I'd appreciate any other suggestions or pointers to
>a SCU program I can use!