Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:37:06 -0700 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940UW and SMP Message-ID: <199701171837.LAA19002@clem.systemsix.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:03:41 MST." <199701171803.LAA08745@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Hi, Terry said: > One caveat: the system may not "know" a card is inserted in slot 5 > if there is not a card inserted in slot 4 (depending on how frobbed > together the hardware is). I don't think we are having this problem. > ... It used to be that FreeBSD couldn't handle > more than one PCI card in one of these machines because the drivers > couldn't do "shared". > > Since the FreeBSD drivers have since been fixed, I don't understand > the "conflict"... is it that there are one or more drivers that > *haven't* been fixed? All of the drivers should be able to share > interrupts. This confuses me also. We were fighting several problems at the same time, so that might not really be the case, ie SHARING might NOT have been a problem. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | FreeBSD -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzHe7tEAAAEEAM274wAEEdP+grIrV6UtBt54FB5ufifFRA5ujzflrvlF8aoE 04it5BsUPFi3jJLfvOQeydbegexspPXL6kUejYt2OeptHuroIVW5+y2M2naTwqtX WVGeBP6s2q/fPPAS+g+sNZCpVBTbuinKa/C4Q6HJ++M9AyzIq5EuvO0a8Rr9AAUR tBlTdGV2ZSBQYXNzZSA8c21wQGNzbi5uZXQ+ =ds99 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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