Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:01:54 -0500 (EST) | From | Dan Merillat <> | Subject | Re: Funky PCI bug. |
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Dan Merillat wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:44:32 -0500 (EST) > From: Dan Merillat <Dan@merillat.org> > To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi> > Subject: Funky PCI bug. > > > > Hmm... got a rather nasty situation last night. > It's definatly bad hardware that caused it, but linux definatly died badly. > Ok, here's the scenario. > > I put a new adaptec board (AHA 3940W) in an older SiS system > (Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems 85C496 (rev 1).) > > Now, the SiS is crap, and didn't recognise the Adaptec. No problem, I had > an older 2940 that it liked. So I put the 2940 in next to the 3940, and > put all the SCSI drives on that. Because I was testing, I left the 3940 in. > The PCI bios reported only the 2940 (as was expected) > > When I booted, at the PCI probe, I got: > Nov 19 04:50:42 news kernel: e/linux/pci.h > Nov 19 04:50:42 news kernel: Warning : Unknown PCI device (cd:0). Please read i
Oh, and before anyone tells me to read include/linux/pci.h... the 3940 works fine in most boards... and has been working with linux for quite some time. It's just this one old MB that tickles the bug.
--Dan
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