Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:31:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> To: Shawn Holwegner <shawn@holwegner.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tyan Tomcat DMA and IRQ woes. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714172739.13645A-100000@orkan.canonware.com> In-Reply-To: <19980713160444.B3383@holwegner.com>
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shawn Holwegner wrote: > I have recently aquired a Tyan Tomcat II Dual Pent. MB. Looks nice, > wish I could say it works the same: I am having no end to troubles with it > in regards to DMA and IRQ timeouts. I have set the Award BIOS to 'manually > controlled resources' as opposed to PnP (evil, wish I knew about this before). > > The odd part is: everyting bloody well works fine until the kernel > attempts to probe the IRQs/DMAs. It will read absolutely everything, even > report ATAPI status on the CDROM and single IDE drive within (IBM DHEA EIDE), > but a simple disklabel has it locking up (an attempt to boot from 3.0-SNAP, > May 24, 1998 will cause it to panic, init dies and jordy's graphic laden > fiend of an install program resets the box. Well, I've installed the same snapshot on the same board with 2 166MHz CPUs on it, 64 MB RAM, a couple of EIDE drives, and assorted junk parts. It works fine for me. I did nothing special to the BIOS to make it work. Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Web: [http://www.canonware.com/~jasone] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Work phone: [(408) 774-8007] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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