Re: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-14 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Darren Pilgrim wrote: I believe the IEEE was involved. :) That explains a lot :) IRQ sharing is a known issue with many RAID cards and even some gigabit ethernet cards. It seems to correlate to cards that push the performance limit of the bus. And here I am with both a RAID card and a giga

RE: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Brandon Fosdick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > Try switching slots with the RAID and video cards. It's silly, but > > then so is PCI interrupt routing. > > Unbelievable. Who ever wrote the PCI spec should have been shot. I believe the IEEE was involved. :) > I

Re: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-13 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Darren Pilgrim wrote: Try switching slots with the RAID and video cards. It's silly, but then so is PCI interrupt routing. Unbelievable. Who ever wrote the PCI spec should have been shot. I switched the cards and now the network card is sharing an interrupt with the video card, but neither s

Re: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-13 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Mike Jakubik wrote: Forgot to mention. You can always buy a cheap pciE video card :) You're a big help :) I was fiddling and I noticed something odd. Previously, the ESCD screen at boot showed the raid controller and network controller both at IRQ 5. The dmesg I sent before showed both at IR

RE: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-13 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Brandon Fosdick > Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > > The easiest thing would probably be to disable the onboard > > sk card, and put in an em (intel gigabit card). The marvell > > chipset and driver is known to be problematic. > > I had thought of that, but the motherboard only has 2 > non-express

Re: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Sun, August 14, 2005 12:47 am, Brandon Fosdick said: > I had thought of that, but the motherboard only has 2 non-express PCI > slots and they're both currently filled by the video card and the raid > card. I could take the video card out, but then I wouldn't be able to see > what I was doing.

Re: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Sun, August 14, 2005 12:47 am, Brandon Fosdick said: > I had thought of that, but the motherboard only has 2 non-express PCI > slots and they're both currently filled by the video card and the raid > card. I could take the video card out, but then I wouldn't be able to see > what I was doing.

Re: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-13 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Mike Jakubik wrote: The easiest thing would probably be to disable the onboard sk card, and put in an em (intel gigabit card). The marvell chipset and driver is known to be problematic. I had thought of that, but the motherboard only has 2 non-express PCI slots and they're both currently fille

Re: IRQ conflict between twa0 and skc0

2005-08-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Sat, August 13, 2005 8:02 pm, Brandon Fosdick said: > So I'm having yet another problem with my AMD64x2/nforce4 system. Of the > two builtin NICs 5.4-S is only recognizing the marvell gigabit chip, > which wasn't a problem until I added a 3ware 9500S-12. With the 3ware > card in the network does