Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:08:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: jinouye@cse.ogi.edu (Jon Inouye) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRQ assignment for PII motherboards Message-ID: <199706262008.NAA07276@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970626120428.4786A-100000@indurain.cse.ogi.edu> from Jon Inouye at "Jun 26, 97 12:16:02 pm"
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> > We just received two machines using Pentium II motherboards > (Intel PD440FX) with AMI BIOS 1.00.04.DT0. The problem is the The only suggestions I can make is don't buy Intel Brand motherboards, they Intel OEMCO division thinks that what they have done is just dandy and could care less that sharing interrupts is a bad idea for server class machines, and/or specify Award BIOS's on all products ordered, as the Award BIOS tends to be very good about not doing this, and when it does do it you have enough control in the PCI/Pnp setup screen to ``fix it''. ... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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