Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Egger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode | Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:44:31 +0200 |
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On 05.04.2005, at 21:33, Ross Biro wrote:
> The problem with always setting the bit is that some PCI hardware, > notably some Intel E-1000 chips (Ethernet controller: Intel > Corporation: Unknown device 1076) cannot properly handle the target > abort bit. In the case of the E-1000 chip, the driver must reset the > chip to recover. This usually leads to the machine being off the > network for several seconds, or sometimes even minutes, which can be > bad for servers.
This sounds *exactly* like my problem since I swapped motherboards. I'll see whether there's some option in the BIOS that fixes it and if not bite the bullet and compile a generic kernel....
Thanks a lot for investigating this.
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