From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat May 11 18:45:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA11080 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 18:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA11073 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 18:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00757; Sat, 11 May 1996 18:44:55 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199605120144.SAA00757@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Motherboards To: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 18:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: ewv@boom.bsdi.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605112132.AAA23211@cantina.clinet.fi> from Heikki Suonsivu at "May 12, 96 00:32:35 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > From: Eric Varsanyi > It must only be certain models then... the ones we've had trouble with > were the P54NP4's (Neptune EISA/PCI). It isn't a BSD/OS problem, > these wouldn't even run the DOS diagnostics that come with the > EP2's. The I_LINE register in the second device is left programmed > ... > They've probably corrected the problems in their newer boards (the > Neptune is at least a couple of years old). > > Intel platos will not probe bridges correctly either, and isn't plato also > using neptune chipset? Chipset problem, or just too old bios? Chipset limitation. The neptune chip set was designed before any PCI-PCI bridges had been designed, thus they had no way to know how to handle them, and no way to test that it would work. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD