I had a NEC controller also running perfect! -- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, 28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de
Michael Cree <[email protected]> schrieb: On 24/06/12 14:46, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 08:35:38PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:59:15AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: >>> On 23/06/12 18:43, Bob Tracy wrote: >>>> I recently retired an old AMD K6-III/450 system that had a serviceable >>>> USB controller in it, so I tried transplanting it to my Alpha. The >>>> kernel seems to detect it just fine and load the appropriate drivers, >>>> but there's evidently a conflict of some kind between the USB card and >>>> my Radeon 7500. >>> >>> The infamous PWS PCI DMA hardware bug maybe? >>> >>> Are you putting the USB card in the 64 bit or 32 bit slot? I think the >>> recommendation is *not* to put anything involving data storage in the 64 >>> bit slots of any 1st generation PWS. > > Five card slots total. Top to bottom, we have three ISA-or-32-bit-PCI > slots, and then the two 64-bit PCI slots. The QLOGIC SCSI card and the > VIA USB card were in the second and third 32-bit slots repectively, Oh! A VIA USB card. I had a USB card recovered from a PC at work that proved unreliable in the PWS and the XP1000 and my recollection is that it had a VIA chipset. I thought the card must be faulty, but maybe there really is a problem with VIA USB and Alphas. I'm currently running a no-brand USB/firewire card in the XP1000. Lspci reports: 0001:04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation uPD72874 [Firewarden] IEEE1394a OHCI 1.1 Link/3-port PHY Controller (rev 01) 0001:04:01.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 0001:04:01.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 0001:04:01.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) That works really well for me. > Sliced-up > my hand on the sharp sheet metal in the case, Yeah, been there, done that. Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
