From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 19 16:40:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1792151B2 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA68943; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:35:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36F2ED64.6201DD56@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:35:48 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hawkkuan@tw.ibm.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: !! Emergency !! FreeBSD 3.1 on IBM Netfinity 5000 Server References: <48256739.00658833.00@tw.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hawkkuan@tw.ibm.com wrote: > > Dear Freebsd core team and developers, The first thing you should do is send the contents of the 'dmesg' command, after booting with -v. It should be sent to -hackers.. there was some problem in your mail message so that I could not see what group you sent it to, so I have CC'd it to hackers. (often -questions would be correct but I agree that it is more appropriate in THIS case for -hackers) julian > > Recenlty IBM Taiwan had a large project to prompt FreeBSD in Taiwan > elementary > school. We use 600 sets IBM Netfinity 5000 server in this project. > > We had some problems with IBM Netfinity 5000 with FreeBSD, The most > important > is that there is 2 set of PCI bridge of Netfinity 5000. When I installed > the netfinity 5000 and > use "dmesg" command. System can regonized all chip set on mainboard, > include 2 PCI bridge > chip set and 1 PCI-ISA bridge. > > ==== IBM Netfinity 5000 Bus Architecture ==== > > PCI bus 0 connected with on board AIC-7895, S3 Video chip & AMD > 79cXXX NIC and > only "1" free PCI slot. > > PCI bus 1 connected with 4 PCI slots , 2 of them are PCI/ISA share > slot. > > ====== The most problems we meet ====== > > All adaptor (we try Intel Ether express pro) only can be regonized on > PCI bus 0 , but > no matter what we have tried, we can't install any adaptor on PCI bus 1 > slots!! > > Could you help us!! We really wonna prompt FreeBSD on Taiwan market. > It need all > your help for this!! > > Is there anyone tried install FreeBSD on multi PCI bus system(most > mid-high end PC > server desgined not just for 1 PCI bridge but more than 2 or 3 PCI bridge)? > > Please help us!! > > Best Regards, > > Hawk Kuan ©x®¶µØ > Sales Specialist , PSG, IBM Taiwan, 206, Sec.1 Keelung Rd, Taipei, Taiwan, > R.O.C. > Tel:886-2-2725-9522, Pager:0959-316961, Mobile: 0936-945920 > Notes ID: Hawk JH Kuan/Taiwan/IBM , E-Mail: hawkkuan@tw.ibm.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message