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Re: SCSI & Video Conflict...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?B?SOp442Tq56Ft5aM=?=)
Tue Jul 28 20:57:59 1998
From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?SOp442Tq56Ft5aM=?=" <hexusa@usa.net>
To: "Linux SCSI M-List" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:52:52 -0500
>On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, [iso-8859-1] Hêxãdêç¡må£ wrote:
>
>> My STB Velocity 128 AGP card is also non-configurable....I can tell my
BIOS
>> to assign it "an IRQ" (not my choice of which one) and it always picks 11
or
>> I can tell it not to assign one, which doesn't help my problem.
>>
>> Basically, Channel B of my SCSI host adapter and my Video Card are trying
to
>> use IRQ 11. I don't use channel B, just channel A, so if I could get
linux
>> to ignore it, then everything would be "A-Okay"....
>>
>> My question: How do I tell linux to ignore the second channel of my SCSI
>> host adapter??
>
>I solved this problem by moving my SCSI adapter (AHA2940UW) to another PCI
>slot. A less haphazard approach is to remove all of the PCI cards
>in your machine but one - the SCSI card - then disable all but one IRQ and
>reboot the machine. Then shut the machine down and install the video
>card, start it up again and enable one more IRQ. This should resolve the
>conflict.
>
>- Chance
I forgot to mention.....my SCSI is built on to the motherboard, I cannot
move it to a different PCI slot. Also, it has two channels, A & B.
I'm still having problems, so if you have any more ideas I'd appreciate the
input.
Thanx,
- Hexadecimal <hexusa@usa.net>
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