Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FlashPoint card hanging system (BT-950) | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:42:14 -0500 | From | Jim Niemira <> |
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William Lash spake, saying: > > Jim Niemira wrote: [snip] > > > BusLogic: IRQ Channel 0 illegal for FlashPoint Host Adapter > > > at PCI Bus 0 Device 10 I/O Addres 0xE800 [snip] > > I was told > > by mylex tech support that the Bt-930 was incompatible with the VIA chipset > , > > but I could try downgrading the bios to 1.41i. I did this and the card woul > d > > work only on a cold power on. The interesting thing is that the problem > > didn't happen with my earlier processor on the same m/b - a K6 233. > > On Mylex's support database, they mention that there is a problem with some > VIA chipset motherboards with the RAID Plus BIOS. I don't think that using > the RAID Plus BIOS does anything for you under Linux.
That's what the dox for the driver say, so that checks out.
> Here are a couple of > reports from the their tech support database that may apply: > > KT-950R won't come up in PA-2013 motherboard (REF#980811-0001) [snip] > SOLUTION: > > The VIA chipsets, such as the MVP3, apparently only allocate a 32K > space for adapter bios, and the RAIDPlus bios version is a 64K image. > You can download the non-RAIDPlus bios version 1.41I from the > Support/Download web page, but this bios does not support the RAID > functions, and will resize the flash chip to 32K. You will not be able > to reflash the bios to the RAIDPlus version until the flash chip has > been reset.
Hm, my bios has always been 1.41i, and it's a 950R ... I tried flashing with 2.02L, and it didn't work; apparently I have to "reset the flash chip", whatever that means ... <looks thru dox>
This card cost me about $80; maybe I'll just get a different one. Any suggestions?
> It sounds like I was lucky that my problems were solved by adding some > delays to the driver.
You lobster! ;-)
jim
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