Steven wrote:
I have an abit bx133 board with a similar problem. The box runs linux, butThanks for the tip, but I've already tried that. I turned off both serial ports and the parallel port and hardwired all of the IRQs down. It didn't help. If there was a card in both the fourth and fifth slot it crashed on probe anyway.
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 :)
Plus I got a lot of stray IRQ7s. This machine isn't all that tight for IRQ space anyway because it has no soundcard or ISA hardware. I think I still have a couple of free IRQs. IIRC, PCI only specifies 4 IRQ lines
for the cards though, so you have to share if you have more than 4 PCI slots. Is this correct?
I'm still curious if this is a problem with FreeBSD, with my motherboard, or with the Cards themselves. Is it unusual for a card to share nicely? Not one manual for any of my cards even mentions IRQ sharing.
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