Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 02:19:26 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ASUS SP3G/AHA-3940 (was Kerb Encr Telnet 2.1R) Message-ID: <199511050819.CAA16209@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <575.815558185@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 4, 95 11:56:25 pm
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> > Yeah, riiiight. I was delighted to see this when I installed the latest > > SNAP: > > Not the *latest* snap you didn't, unless you're even faster on the > FTP transfers than we give you credit for.. :-) Only if I had a time machine. Your announcement arrived scant minutes after I hit "Send"... > This problem has already been widely commented on and is fixed in > 2.1.0-951104-SNAP I hadn't seen anything, I am sorry.. of course I was sorta busy with an upgrade nightmare scenario and I might have missed something. I made the foolish decision to upgrade news.sol.net to the ex-latest SNAP in order to pick up support for the AHA-3940, so I could recover two ISA SCSI controllers for better uses... I installed the SNAP on a blank drive and was up and running in about an hour and a half. It turned into a 36 hour nightmare at around the 18th hour, when that disk gave up the ghost and I suddenly started hitting roadblocks left and right trying to replace it. Reminder #1: It's Never Just A Simple Upgrade Reminder #2: Even If It Is, Something Will Go Wrong So. Everything else aside, I wonder if anybody out there knows: I am trying to use an ASUS PCI/I-SP3G motherboard with an AHA-3940. I do NOT understand the way PCI interrupts are being assigned! What I select in the BIOS setup seems to be just as often as not ignored... setting the slot to "14&15" doesn't get me anywhere, and as a matter of fact when I actually ended up with a "working" system, I had to set the IRQ to 10, FreeBSD reports the card as being on 11 and 9 (9 also being the built-in NCR controller!), etc. It almost seems as though the controller tries to pick its own interrupts, and has a tendency towards liking 11 and 12. I am quite afraid to breathe around the machine, for fear that some Magic Bits will change. I am at a total loss as to how one might add a second 3940... does anyone have any tips? Insight into PCI Interrupts? Etc.? By the way, the 3940 is a really slick controller - at least once you get it configured right. Thanks, ... JG
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