Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:34:56 -0700 From: Larry Battraw <battraw@home.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2940U2W under Linux 2.4.x Message-ID: <3B8EBF90.8000806@home.com> References: <200108292221.f7TMLlY02779@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Have you verified that there are no new BIOS versions available for your > motherboard? From what I can tell, when we write to registers over the > PCI bus, we are not getting the expected results. This may mean that > the PCI chipset has a non-standard caching feature enabled that violates > the PCI spec. I've seen this on some other VIA based boards. > > -- > Justin > > I am running the latest BIOS version available. However, your comment about PCI features helped to pinpoint the problem. Many reboots later it looks like the byte-merge function is the culprit. All other features can be turned on (including PCI bus master read caching, which I was suspicious of). Thanks for the help with this dilemma; it was sure mystifying when the rest of the world wasn't having the same problem with relatively common hardware! Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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