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From: Craig Hapanovich <chapan@execpc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: multiple pci cards [shared IRQs]
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:02:07 -0600
Organization: City of Milwaukee
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The saga continues.  After replacing the Zenith Gt motherboard
I still could not access scsi drives with an Adaptec 2940U. So I 
replaced it with a buslogic scsi card. Then I was able to use the
disks and the smc etherpower card, but bsdi still was not seeing the dec 
fddi card. I tried modifing the GENERIC configuration to explicitly tell 
bsdi that the fddi card was using irq 9.  Then everyting worked! For an 
hour or so. Then I had three crashes with a message about a bad 
interrupt on DE0 (the smc ethernet card). I pulled the cable out of the
ethernet card and put on bnc terminators, and the system stayed up. But 
now I don't have ethernet.  I think I will just save the dump, call 
BSDI,  and try using an ISA ne2000 card the problem is resolved. This 
shot my St. Patricks day to hell.
-- 
Craig Hapanovich
Lead Systems Analyst
City of Milwaukee