Quoting Oliver Fromme, who wrote on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:44:43PM +0200 .. > Gerrit Kühn wrote: > > As Oliver already suggested, I will take out the controller and see what > > happens then. > > > > Talking about this controller: This is also the only board I am using with > > PCI cards (and thus with a PCI riser) at all. I remember vaguely that I > > had a few problems getting the controller to work in the riser card when > > it put the system together. The riser has two ports, and the controller > > would only work in the upper one afaicr. > > That rings a bell ... > > I remember reports of riser cards that apparently changed > the timing on the PCI bus so they were only marginally > compliant with the spec, or maybe not even that anymore. > > If you try to remove the controller, please also remove > the riser card. It could well be that it's causing > problems, especially if it's on the same PCI bus as the > onboard re(4) interfaces. > > There are various kinds of riser cards (passive, active, > with fixed IRQs, or with jumpers, and so on). For a > related discussion see this one, for example: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/24/39 > > Typing "pci riser card jumper" in Google will give you > many more pages with interesting (or frightening) stuff > to read.
Well, if you know how the PCI bus electrically works this kind of problem is hardly a surprise ;-) -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
