Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:04:47 GMT+0100 From: "Kees Jan Koster" <Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOYO SY-30F2 blues Message-ID: <3FD8BF9780E@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com>
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> > I had a memory problem with 2 PCI cards - in my case a Cirrus Logic 5434 > and an Adaptec 2940. As with your case, the cards were grabbing the same > memory area. I 'cured' it by swapping their positions on the motherboard. > It seems that they were deciding on their memory area by some kind of > base x slot number calculation. When they were in the positions I used > first, they overlaid each other, after I reversed them, the problem > disappeared. > > Although my experience is with different cards, and I'm no hardware > maven - try swapping slots - it couldn't hurt! > Oh, I didn't mention that? I tried swapping cards, moving the SCSI controller to slot 2 and the S3 to slot 1. In any combination where the SCSI card has a higher slot number than the S3 the machine will boot, up to the point where FreeBSD inserts it's own device drivers. The I will see a message similar to: ncr0: CACHE CONFIGURED INCORRECTLY <crash> I haven't tried MS-DOS in this situation, but then again it'd probably work just fine and that would freak me out %-) Groetjes, Kees Jan
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