From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 0:29:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372F537B973 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:29:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA22516; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:29:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200003150829.JAA22516@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ata + vinum problems In-Reply-To: <20000314182259.I17156@cs.mcgill.ca> from Mathew Kanner at "Mar 14, 2000 06:22:59 pm" To: mat@cs.mcgill.ca (Mathew Kanner) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:29:41 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Mathew Kanner wrote: > Hi All, > I wanted to document my difficuties with Vinum and multiple > disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with > multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that > the problem goes away when I disable most devices in the BIOS. > The motherboard is a abit BE6-II, I've enabled most BIOS > periphs such as serial ports, printer ports, usb, vga ints but not APM. Hmm, I've seen references on the net to the BE6 having trouble with ATA PCI controllers in one of the slots if the internal controller is enabled, I dont know which slot that is unfortunately, so moving things around is my best guess. Btw are you running the latest 4.0 or -current code ? there was a time when we had problems with the HPT and Promise controllers ? -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message