Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:35:12 -0800 | From | Jay Thorne <> | Subject | Re: Little Lance Patch & Cyrix P150+ |
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>> Question for you: do you know any reason why lance32 PCI (AMD 79C970) >> cards might generate thousands of "Bus master arbitration failure" >> messages, specifically when the suspend halt of a cyrix processor is >> enabled? I have this problem. So far my solution has been to disable > >The bus mastering gets locked up. The other symptoms are even worse. If >some boards go into power save during a transmit the lance may jam the >network. >
So, It follows then that the lance cards are kind of _NOT_RECOMMENDED_ in
a) APM - using systems b) Cyrix using systems c) Powerful systems in general, since as you say, it locks up bus mastering.
It wasnt even that cheap since at $129 CDN
>> suspend halt. I've exchanged the card, with no change in symptom. It >> even gives 5 to 10 errors per day with suspend halt disabled. > >Thats not unusual if you have a lot of DMA going on. Especially a >sound blaster. >
Or perhaps a Triton MB and a fast HD?
>> Can anyone shed light on this issue? I have tried turning on APM in bios >> and that made X stop working, as well as not helping my problem. . > >Basically if you are using a lance based device turn APM off. I know of >no other solution. > >Alan
APM won't _really_ turn off on my godforsaken Award BIOS. It pretends it is, but APM in the kernel finds it, and so does Win95.
-- Jay Thorne http://net.result.com/ President, The Net Result Systems * Services Telephone:(604) 220 2504 WWW & Internet Systems Consultant.
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