Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 09:44:34 +0200 From: Marco Masotti <mc7953@mclink.it> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Asus PVI486SP3 and 2940 compatibility - PART II Message-ID: <316F5B62.41C67EA6@mclink.it>
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The problem I got a week ago was blankly solved. I sum up briefly what was the matter and what now is. Hardware: --------- Above motherboard with firmware 0304 2940 controller with firmware 1.11 1 SIMM 16 Megs 60 Ns 1,080 Gb IBM Scsi-2 Cirrus Logic 5430 (pci) ISA Ethernet Combi Trust (PnP) Problem: -------- Hardware randomly hangs, reads/writes corrupt with CD drive and HDD, while installing FreeBSD and, as a tentative fall back, DOS 6.21. I've tried with no success to: ------------------------------ - Disable on board IDE controller - Disable PnP on the Ethernet Card - Do a regression with older Asus firmware, back to 0202, to avoid any PnP board capability - Assign IRQ 14 to the Pci slot where the 2940 was plugged in I was about to swap the IBM disk with a Fujitsu, when I tried to swap the postions of the two pci boards. Original was: Slot#1 CL 5430 Slot#3 2940 Changed in: Slot#1 2940 Slot#3 CL 5430 and suddenly every problem disappeared, FreeBSD and then DOS. WHICH CONCLUSIONS? ------------------ The 2940 is a busmaster card so, please do tell me, it should fit into suitable busmaster supported slot. However nothing I know about the CL5430 taken from the bulk. Nevertheless, the Asus installation guide repeats that any pci slot would support busmastering on such board. Apart from the solution I've find out, any light out there? Could it be not really a compatibility problem of 2940 with the motherboard, but actually an issue between the two pci boards? Thanks, Marco
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