Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble
hazelsct@mit.edu (Adam C Powell IV) writes:
> William T Wilson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > > > I get this all the time when I try to access a drive that is in sleep
> >
> > > > mode. It takes it a minute or two and then it comes back to life and
> >
> > > > works normally. I have an old '96 era Intel Triton motherboard.
> > >
> > > Okay, but why would my drives be sleeping? This happens during the
> > > first disk access after a net access, could the net driver be putting
> > > the drives to sleep? And why does resetting the IDE interfaces kill
> > > my networking ability?
> >
> > They probably aren't, but based on what you have to say here, I'd check
> > and make sure that your network card isn't sharing an interrupt with your
> >
> > ide interface.
>
> Ahem, from the original post:
>
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> > [snip]
> > There shouldn't be an IRQ conflict, because the net cards are on IRQs 10
> > and 5, and the ide0 and ide1 are at 14 and 15 respectively. I tried
> > network stop; ifconfig eth0 down; rmmod 3c59x; modprobe 3c59x; network
> > start but the network is still dead. It remains dead until I do a full
> > halt and power down, after which it comes back- until the next disk
> > access.
>
> Other ideas?
Could be ioport conflict.
I've seen times when boot-up messages were incorrect on IRQ settings.
So it is wise to look around in "/proc" to verify everything.
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