From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 18 13:52:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F93437B400; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0ILqe149522; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:52:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.0.20010118164411.0217d230@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:46:11 -0500 To: Mike Murphree , Mike Smith From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message