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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.


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