From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 6:59:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AED937B9EF for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 06:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA07437; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:59:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:59:30 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: Soren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata + vinum problems Message-ID: <20000315095930.A7309@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <20000314182259.I17156@cs.mcgill.ca> <200003150829.JAA22516@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.15i In-Reply-To: Soren Schmidt's message [Re: ata + vinum problems] as of Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:29:41AM +0100 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Mathew Kanner wrote: > > disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with > > multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that > > the problem goes away when I disable most devices in the BIOS. > > The motherboard is a abit BE6-II, I've enabled most BIOS > > periphs such as serial ports, printer ports, usb, vga ints but not APM. > > Hmm, I've seen references on the net to the BE6 having trouble with > ATA PCI controllers in one of the slots if the internal controller > is enabled, I dont know which slot that is unfortunately, so moving > things around is my best guess. I did get hit by that, in this case it's the 5th pci slot. When there a controller in there, the system just locks completly. > Btw are you running the latest 4.0 or -current code ? there was > a time when we had problems with the HPT and Promise controllers ? The kernel in question was cvsup'ed right at the change. I'm going to try 4.0 today. --Mat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message