Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:46:11 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Mike Murphree <n4cnw@knology.net>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Message-ID: <5.0.1.4.0.20010118164411.0217d230@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010118154834.A5024@n4cnw.dyndns.org> References: <200101181948.f0IJmXQ00714@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <86wvbsrjgy.fsf@lorne.arm.org> <200101181948.f0IJmXQ00714@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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At 03:48 PM 1/18/01 -0600, Mike Murphree wrote:
>This is the same VIA Southbridge chip as was used in the Socket 7
>motherboards. On those motherboards, I have needed to change BIOS
>settings and shuffle cards between PCI slots to prevent shared
>interrupts on a Symbios 53C875 card and on the first IDE controller
>for proper operation in both FreeBSD and Win NT 4. Other PCI cards
>and devices seem to do okay sharing interrupts. I never resolved
>whether this was a chipset problem or card problem, but can vouch
>for its existence in some circumstances.
Are you sure its an IRQ issue in the slot, or a DMA issue ? I had similar
motherboard problems a while back and I had to rearrange cards as
well. But I think it was more of a DMA issue, as thats what the particular
card complained about at the time.
---Mike
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