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SubjectRe: Intel E1000 and IDE problems
Last thing I did.. I changed the motherboard from Soltek 75DRV5 with KT333
to a Shuttle with KT400 .. no problems anymore. Sorry for the spam
and trouble :)

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Teodor Iacob wrote:
> One more thing to add:
>
> After a few of those kind of freezes the BIOS won't even recognize the
> Harddisk anymore, I had to turn on the machine without the harddisk in it
> then I forced the bios to update ESCD and the put back the harddrive in it
> and worked. Somehow those cards affect the system anyway. ( even only in
> CMOS setup )
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:22:17PM +0200, Teodor Iacob wrote:
> > I found something really interesting. I am now able to reproduce problems
> > exactly at the same point:
> >
> > If I boot the machine without ethernet cables connected before loading
> > the kernel the machine seems to work fine for a while. If I put for
> > example a crossover cable between the cards I cannot even boot the system!
> > right after the kernel initialization after it starts the init I get
> > IDE errors and then freezes because it cannot run the commands in
> > rc.sysinit.
> >
> > I have to mention I also tried the built-in driver of intel e1000.
> > The 5.2.20 of course it was loaded as a module at network scripts
> > initialization.
> >
> > So the problems trims down to how can those NICs can affect the IDE
> > only when they have cables connected ( even though without the driver
> > initialization they don't have the led link on ) even without traffic
> > going through them.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:02:27PM -0800, Feldman, Scott wrote:
> > > > I recently put up 2 intel network adapters:
> > > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545EM Gigabit
> > > > Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
> > > > 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545EM Gigabit
> > > > Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
> > > >
> > > > ( I replaced some Intel PRO1000 Desktop which I had before ) and now
> > > > I get serious problems with the hda disk:
> > >
> > > Did you put the 82545 nics in the same slots where you had the desktop
> > > nics?
> > >
> > > Are the 82545 nics on the same bus segment as the disk controller? Are
> > > there any shared interrupts? See lcpci -vvv.
> > >
> > > -scott
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Manager Infrastructura Nationala
Astral Telecom Internet
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