On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Mathew Kanner wrote:
> > 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.
I did get hit by that, in this case it's the 5th pci slot.
When there a controller in there, the system just locks completly.
> 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 ?
The kernel in question was cvsup'ed right at the change. I'm
going to try 4.0 today.
--Mat
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