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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:59:30 -0500
From:      Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ata + vinum problems
Message-ID:  <20000315095930.A7309@cs.mcgill.ca>
In-Reply-To: Soren Schmidt's message [Re: ata %2B vinum problems] as of Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:29:41AM %2B0100
References:  <20000314182259.I17156@cs.mcgill.ca> <200003150829.JAA22516@freebsd.dk>

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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



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