kern/42977: FreeBSD installer doesn't probe past EISA slot 10. Causes issues with NetServers.

[Andy Farkas]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42977; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andy Farkas <andyf at speednet.com.au>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org>,
	<freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>, <qa at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: kern/42977: FreeBSD installer doesn't probe past EISA slot 10.
 Causes issues with NetServers.
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:23:16 +1000 (EST)

 This is mentioned in LINT/NOTES already:
 
 # By default, only 10 EISA slots are probed, since the slot numbers
 # above clash with the configuration address space of the PCI subsystem,
 # and the EISA probe is not very smart about this.  This is sufficient
 # for most machines, but in particular the HP NetServer LC series comes
 # with an onboard AIC7770 dual-channel SCSI controller on EISA slot #11,
 # thus you need to bump this figure to 12 for them.
 options         EISA_SLOTS=12
 
 Maybe it should be mentioned in the Harware Notes for current releases,
 including the workaround.
 
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         Andy Farkas
     System Administrator
    Speednet Communications
  http://www.speednet.com.au/