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Re: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Starck)
Mon Jan 23 19:04:16 1995
From: sstarck@Gateway.Uswnvg.COM (Steve Starck)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 14:03:09 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Dirk.Steinberg@gmd.de
Dirk Steinberg <Dirk.Steinberg@gmd.de> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using an ASUS PCI/E-P54NP4 Pentium 90 PCI/EISA Mainboard with a
> NCR 53c810 SCSI adapter, Miro CRYSTAL 20SV PCI S3 964 graphics board,
> and AMD 79c970 PCnet/PCI Ethernet card (lance driver).
>
> Every one in a while I get the following message:
>
> Jan 20 21:05:56 tonic linux: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
>
> I doesn't seem to harm much, though. Sometimes the text-mode VGA
> screen is garbeled, but I'm not sure if that's related. When running
> X, I haven't noticed anything.
>
> This happens with Linux 1.1.73 - 1.1.83, don't know about other
> versions.
>
> What does this message mean? Can I safely ignore it?
>
> Dirk
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dirk W. Steinberg - German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
> Institute for Application-Oriented Software- and Systems Technology (ISA-NW)
> Network Engineering Department - Rathausallee 10 - D-53754 Sankt Augustin
> Phone: +49 2241 14-3182 - Fax: +49 2241 14-3038 - Email: Dirk.Steinberg@gmd.de
>
>
For an additional datapoint, I'm seeing this same thing on HP
Vectra 486/66XMs with their onboard AMD 79c970 PCnet Ethernet
controller (Lance driver) running 1.1.76.
It's a nuisance, but nothings busted (yet).
I sure would like to know what to do about it.
Steve Starck sstarck@uswnvg.com
Sr. Systems Administrator
U S WEST NewVector Group, Inc.
(206)562-5024
