Re: More fa311 probing

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Mayrand wrote:
> Been trying to set it there...

Really?  I've had the same situation with Windows 9x, but never
Linux.  I've had PCI 2.0 boards not work in some slots, or even
newer PCI 2.1/2.2 boards conflicting, but never outside of Windows
9x.  It always seems to work fine in Linux, even with all 6 PCI
slots filled in my Abit KT7.

> Its an A7V mainboard and the ATA100 controller keeps
> trying to grab IRQ's.

IMHO, Promise chips/products are the biggest pieces of crap on the
planet.  But that's my opinion (and why I stick with Abit products
over Asus because the former uses High Point).

I also have a NetGear FA310TX Rev. D1 that sits in a pile.  It never
worked right and would cause my whole PCI bus to go down (as well as
get hot as shit).  As such, I no longer buy NetGear Fast Ethernet
products (although their GA620 Gigabit card is a reference AceNIC
that works great).

> After forcing a specific IRQ for each pci slot I cannot
> boot now...

I'm assuming your boot drive is on the off-chipset IDE controller? 
Are you telling it your boot device is /dev/hde and BIOS disk 80h in
LILO? **  Or did you re-compile your kernel to assign off-chipset
IDE controllers first (so it is /dev/hda)?

** NOTE:  Here's an example /etc/lilo.conf:

   #	/etc/lilo.conf
   disk = /dev/hde
	bios = 80
   boot = /dev/hde
      ....

> Also found a bios update from asus but the files dont
> exist on there ftp site!!  Any other ideas?

The FTP site, was it US or Taiwanese?  If it was the former, try the
latter's ftp site (asus.com.tw).

-- TheBS

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