From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 11:50:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0BB37B4CF for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:50:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAGJnlB64711; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:49:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001116193140.A11969@cicely8.cicely.de> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:50:25 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Bernd Walter Subject: Re: PC164 IDE only works (was: SMPng stability) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, Christian Weisgerber , Andrew Gallatin Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16-Nov-00 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 07:20:07PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:47:12PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:32:53PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: >> > What I will try next is plugging a keyboard in and I will setting up >> > an IDE only kernel to see if any of these make a difference. >> >> Just for the record: >> I tried an IDE only kernel and it booted fine into single user mode. >> It even survived an fsck -n on that drive. > > But making some load on the network interface hang it in a rather short > time. > I realy has something to do wether you are using a device with a level > triggered int for which you have to disable the source. > The IDE interface does not need to disable the int source. All the PCI devices on most alphas (rawhide's excluded AFAIK) are level-triggered. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message