Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:25:54 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PCI plug-n-play on Intel Premiere Baby II? Message-ID: <95Apr19.102557pdt.49864@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 95 00:37:18 PDT." <199504190737.AAA01354@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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In message <199504190737.AAA01354@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> you write: >This board is also, I believe, called the Intel Plato card, check you >user manual to see if it says Plato in it. It says "Plato?" in my handwriting on the cover =) The inside doesn't say much about anything... but that reminded me that the Plato bios upgrades that sometimes show up on wuarchive work, so... >What version of the BIOS does the motherboard have on it? I was using 1.00.10, I just upgraded to 1.00.12 and it doesn't look any different, either in the setup or in how it assigns interrupts. >They also left you with very little flexiability in what you could do >to stop cards from sharing an interrupt. I guess I just don't know enough about PCI, but I found it pretty odd that the NCR SCSI card still got int A even though it was jumpered to B. >Basically this was one of the first PCI P54C-90 motherboards on the market >and I talked it down then, and still tell people to avoid it if they can. Okay, so, at least I have a CPU, can you reccomend a nice replacement motherboard? (Preferably with built-in 2x16550 and parallel and floppy/ide since I only have one free slot right now...) >If you have set the jumper on the NCR card to interrupt B, this motherboard >will never see the interrupt from that card as far as I can tell. Sigh. I can't figure out how to tell if the NCR has fallen back to polling. Neither dmesg nor ncrcontrol seems to say. (although ncrcontrol -dp says 57 interrupts, implying that it might be getting interrupts -- or those might be de interrupts mis-dispatched, I guess) Bill
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