Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:22:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@IPINC.NET> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: i386/2598: ep0 in eisa mode hangs if ep0-device (isa) is enabled Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151721580.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <01BF8E89.8BF95420.tedm@ipinc.net>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Hmmm - I didn't think that the 509 would even work in eisa mode at all > in the isa bus - one of the traps with that card was that if it was > configed in eisa mode and you didn't have an eisa machine around to > unconfig it in you were hosed. I'll find out if this is the case or not when I do my testing on the fixes I'm working on for this problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew N. Dodd [SMTP:winter@jurai.net] > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 7:22 AM > To: Sheldon Hearn > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: i386/2598: ep0 in eisa mode hangs if ep0-device (isa) is enabled > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > My take on your explanation ofthis problem is that the simple solution > > is to simply refrain from configuring the card for EISA mode. Is it > > that simple? > > Actually it sounds like he's using a 3c509 in EISA mode in a non-EISA > machine. > > It sounds like the EISA bus code isn't checking to see if a card is > enabled or not before it attaches it. (checks) Yep, thats it. > > -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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