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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!netnews10.nwnet.net!nwnet.net!not-for-mail From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: multiple pci cards [shared IRQs] Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:19:13 -0800 Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4i7e4h$i0e@olympus.nwnet.net> References: <313E5821.6D78@execpc.com> <3144A92A.31FC@execpc.com> <1996Mar11.202048.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> <4i3mdh$ab4@elf.bsdi.com> Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.nwnet.net >Indeed, 2.0 and 2.1 do handle IRQ sharing on those cards that >support it. The 2.1 release does a somewhat better job in that it >knows that certain cards `definitely do' support sharing and omits >the warning message excerpted below in that case. (Clearly it >needs another special case here :-) .) > [this configuration ...] >>BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 Kernel #0: Fri Jan 12 15:01:30 MST 1996 >>bha0 at isa0 iobase 0x330 irq 9: Buslogic EISA/PCI/VLB rev 42 (32-bit) >>WARNING: conflict at irq 9 >>bha1 at isa0 iobase 0x334 irq 9: Buslogic EISA/PCI/VLB rev 42 (32-bit) > [... works for several people.] We had a heck of a time getting two Buslogics to work in the same machine with 2.0.1. The only way we got them to be happy was to have them on different IRQs. There is so much contradictory documentation about this stuff that it'd be nice for the BSDI docs to include an explicit example.