From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 26 13:09:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09436 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA09429 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA07276; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:08:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199706262008.NAA07276@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: IRQ assignment for PII motherboards In-Reply-To: from Jon Inouye at "Jun 26, 97 12:16:02 pm" To: jinouye@cse.ogi.edu (Jon Inouye) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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