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SubjectRe: 2.4.x and DAC960 issues
This is the summary of the off-list discussion and solution to my
DAC960 problem.

-Albert

On Saturday, 6 April 2002, Marc A. Volovic wrote:

> Quoth Leonard N. Zubkoff:
>
> > From: Albert Max Lai <amlai@bitsorcery.com>
> >
> > I moved the card into the slot closest to the CPU that I could, and
> > voila! everything works correctly; no lockups, ext3 works, even
> >
> > Excellent news. That's not a fix I've heard of before.
>
> Hi,
>
> Alas, it is very simple. Many (most? in my experience - Tyan, MSI, ASUS)
> motherboards leave their outer (farthest from the CPU area) PCI slots
> ___NON-bus mastering___. In most cases, this is the outermost slot, but
> sometimes it is more than one slot, but again, the outermost, leftmost.
>
> Sometimes, the masterlessness is dynamic - i.e. based on the number of
> populated slots, counting from the CPU. This is EXTREMELY rare. I saw
> it only once, I think, and on a board I did not trust even as far as
> I could toss it. (Well, I could toss it some reasonable distance, which
> I did ;-)...
>
> In some rare cases (errrr... ummmm... SOME Tyan board, I cannot
> currently remember the model) ran in the reverse direction.
>
> Populating these masterless slots with anything but a sound card (and in
> many cases even by a sound card) leads to loss of stability.
>
> Moving a board INWARD (i.e. toward the CPU) in many cases solves the
> problem.
>
> --
> ---MAV
> Linguists Do It Cunningly
> Marc A. Volovic marc@bard.org.il
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