Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:29:38 -0700 From: "Steven" <magusbaal@digitalbastards.net> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: PCI oddity Message-ID: <002001c2d186$302725d0$3802a8c0@internal.digitalbastards.net> In-Reply-To: <3E47C3D5.6000904@mitre.org>
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I have an abit bx133 board with a similar problem. The box runs linux, but experienced the same problem in the same place, when it was probing the drives. I narrowed the problem down to lack of IRQ's. Here's what I did to work around this: Go into the BIOS, disable the Serial and Parallel if you don't need them. You may also need to set IRQs 3,4,7 to PCI instead of ISA on that board. Look under the PCI section, if it exists. You should be able to specify IRQ's for several of the PCI slots, try playing with those. Turn off Plug'n'Play OS Installed, give it a whirl, or turn it on (I've some some luck with this on other boxes). I had to turn off PnP OS, specify different IRQ's for each PCI slot to force them not to share, and have all unused hardware disabled to free up IRQ's. Hopefully this will be of some use to you :) Steven "exitus acta probat" "fide, sed cui vide" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Andresen Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 8:23 AM To: Phil Reynolds; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI oddity My manual doesn't tell me squat about the interrupts on the board. My guess what that the two slots share an IRQ, because PCI only has IIRC 4 IRQ lines to go around. That's why I was worried it might be an issue with FreeBSD being unable to support shared cards. It is the bottom two PCI slots that give me problems though (one of which is the shared PCI/ISA slot, but that doesn't seem to matter). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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