> From: Michael Jinks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 12:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict
>
>
> John J. Donohue wrote:
>
> > Try moving one or both of the cards to different PCI slots
> and see if that
> > "encourages" them to choose different IRQ's.
>
> Also suggested was disabling IRQ11 in the BIOS and forcing a
> different choice
> that way. Neither one worked.
>
> Here's what we've now done:
>
> -- In the BIOS, turned off IRQ11 for PCI, rebooted; both the
> SCSI card and the
> net card still chose IRQ11. (???)
>
What is the BIOS reporting as the IRQ for the two cards (if it does) on
POST?
Going into BIOS, is there a PCI "first choice" menu? Can you disable BIOS
from choosing the IRQ for the PCI cards? Is BIOS choosing the IRQs or not?
Is there a setup/config app for your SCSI card for DOS? If so what does it
say?
Simple questions I know but I just want to see what you are.
> -- Swapped the net card and the video card (this box only has
> 3 PCI slots);
> booted DOS and looked at the 3com card using their config
> utility; it had
> chosen IRQ9. Okay; exited that utility, rebooted the
> machine, and by the time
> Linux loaded, the 3com card had snapped back to IRQ11 again.
>
Does RH show that et0 is at "address xxxx IRQ 11" durring LILO/kerneld load?
This still might be a RH setup problem. There is a file that sets/records
the IRQs for devices, /proc/interupts, and check /proc/pci. In the least
this will give you more info to find out why IRQ 11 is being grabed by both
cards.
Let me know what you find.
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