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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 rl0 and xl0 watchdog timeout problems (and solution)
From: Jim Frost <jimf@frostbytes.com>
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On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 12:40, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > Could be; certainly that was the case back in the old days with cheap
> > IDE interfaces that didn't deliver interrupts.  Personally I don't much
> > care if it's just BSD being more picky, but "watchdog timeout" did not
> > seem to indicate "card is in the wrong PCI slot" to me.
> > 
> Did you have the ps/2 mouse controller disabled?  That lives on IRQ 12
> on every motherboard I"ve seen in ATX form factor.

The mouse controller is not disabled (although it is unused).  I had
thought that it was still using irq12 in the new slot, but I just
checked and it's not -- it's irq11 now.  So that, ultimately, may be the
problem.

Thanks!

jim



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