Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Adaptec 2930U2 problem followup | Date | Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:18:16 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Doug Ledford wrote: > Bob_Tracy wrote: > > > > Been having problems with an Adaptec 2930U2 card in my machine at > > the house. Naturally, it works fine with Win95. The problem has > > been shown to be something peculiar to my motherboard after looking > > at many test scenarios over the past several days. Basically, > > there's no interrupt activity corresponding to the 2930U2 that > > either Linux or FreeBSD can see. This results in an infinite > > timeout/reset loop during driver initialization. > > This is usually only a problem on SMP motherboards. In that case, I tell > people to boot the kernel with the option noapic and see if it helps the > problem. In any case, linux isn't reading your IRQ routing information > properly either due to a linux bug or a buggy BIOS. You could bring this > problem up to Ingo Molnar if this is an SMP motherboard *and* noapic helps, or > bring it up to Martin Mares otherwise since it would likely be a PCI problem.
Doug,
If it's the IRQ routing stuff, then the symptoms would be consistent with: "But 2.0 worked just fine on this machine", right?
I have a client with exaclty the same problem, and the "but 2.0 works" hint. (IBM machine by the way.)
Roger.
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