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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:57:43 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Lars Jonas Olsson <ljo@Mcs.Net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: de0 timeouts w 486 CPU 
Message-ID:  <199701280457.UAA13857@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:34:19 CST." <199701272134.PAA10766@Venus.mcs.net> 

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>I have a 486DX4-100 system that is doing make worlds fine, but
>generates a lot of:
>
>de0: system error: master abort
>
>messages with a current kernel. With a 2.1R kernel it was
>generating illegal interrupt errors for de0. 
> Any guess if this is bug in the if_de.c driver or a hardware problem?
>The rate of messages is 5-30/hour on a system not doing much
>networking.

   I would guess that it's a PCI DMA problem on the motherboard. There were
quite a few 486 PCI machines that had really bad PCI performance (perhaps
due to incorrect chipset configuration?). You may wish to look for any BIOS
settings related to PCI write buffer, etc..

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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