Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:11:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Wilson <jmw_ymail@yahoo.com> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few 5.0-Release questions... Message-ID: <20030305021110.12925.qmail@web20711.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E654D73.8030308@btc.adaptec.com>
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--- Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> wrote: [Dell PowerEdge] > What model? There are quite a few PowerEdges out It's a 600SC - P4 1.8 - Perc3/SC Since new, I've added a Plextor CD-RW (IDE), Lite-On DVD-ROM (IDE), and an ATI All-In-Wonder VE (7500, PCI). > > These machines come with integrated video, an ATI [Complications with integrated RageXL and PCI version of the ATI AIW VE... NMI halts] > As a wild guess, what happens when you remove the > EISA device from the kernel? I tried this as well. Unfortunately, removing the EISA device did nothing to relieve the problem with the NMI. The only thing that cleared it up was adding 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' in /boot/device.hints. This was the case, at least, with 5.0-RELEASE. I've yet to see what happens with -CURRENT. Perhaps I'll try and cvsup -CURRENT, remove 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0', and see what happens. > There have been problems in the past with ATAPI/IDE > drives that claim DMA capabilities but instead corrupt data > and/or cause panics. Forcing everything to PIO is the > easiest way to achieve maximum compatibility. The ata manual > page describes what to put into /boot/loader.conf to > force them back using DMA. I pulled these two drives from a WinXP machine, and based on the transfer method reported in XP, it was using DMA. No stability issues were noted, at least in regard to XP. I've been running them under 5.0 now for a few days, burned a few CD's and played a few DVD's without stability issues either -- thankfully. I'll check out the above referenced manual page and make the suggested changes. Thank you for the tip. [About permanently disabling the integrated video] > Does the motherboard have a jumper that will disable > it? Unfortunately, no. I've even contacted Dell regarding this as I could find no information in the documentation provided with the system. They simply stated that when another video card is installed, the integrated video is disabled. They also mentioned that this type of configuration "is not supported." I've looked for jumpers on the motherboard itself and only found jumpers for clearing the BIOS password... nothing else. Thank you once again, Scott, for your help. It was very much appreciated. - John Wilson <jmw74@charter.net> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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