4.8 on Proliant 8500

[Secureplay]

I did try other slots. Originally I had it in the tertiary (64-bit) bus, it
being a 64-bit card, then I tried the slots on primary and secondary as
well. No luck. :(



-----Original Message-----
From: Barney Wolff [mailto:barney at databus.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:40 PM
To: Secure Play
Cc: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 4.8 on Proliant 8500


On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:53:41PM -0700, Secure Play wrote:
> Has anyone seen any issues runing FreeBSD 4.8 on a Compaq Proliant 
> 8500? This is an older 8-way server (2GB ram, 8x500 Mhz CPUs). I don't
really need all those CPUs, but I have nothing else to do with them. :)
>  
> Everything works fine, except that when I add a Intel Pro/1000 card, 
> it is not seen.  I also tried an equivalent compaq gigabit card with 
> the same results (I believe they share the same chipset). I don't know 
> what else to do to it, the bios sees them, I have the latest updates 
> from Compaq/HP, and I eventually recompiled the kernel with the latest 
> drivers from the intel website. Everything else seems to work fine, 
> although admittedly this is the only "up" card that I have in this 
> box.  I also tried various slots (the box has three busses) and no 
> luck.

This may be a pci hardware version problem.  I have a pro/1000-desktop card
which is only seen in a 64-bit slot on an Asus A7M266-D motherboard,
although it's a 32-bit card.  My guess was that the card requires a newer
pci version than the motherboard was supplying on the 32-bit slots. Another
possibility is interrupt sharing.  Try moving the card to all other slots
before giving up.

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