Subject: Re: oddities on a DS10
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/08/2001 23:22:16
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:22:09AM -0800, James Sharp wrote:
>
> > [ snip ]
> > mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70
> > stray isa irq10
> > stray isa irq10
> > stray isa irq10
> > stray isa irq10
Turned out that this is the USB controller. I removed it from the
configuration and rebuilt the kernel. The machine is happy now and it
seems to have brought the performance back to what I'd expect from a DS10.
> >
> > [ snip ]
> > root sd0a dumps on sd0b
> > sysctl: adding
>
> You're using a serial console, I guess... can you try to see what's at
> isa irq 10?
>
> This seems like the "16 bytes of death" bug that used to happen on
> systems with serial consoles, which Ross fixed by sending a specific
> EOI to the ISA interrupt controller... I'm kind of puzzled over why
> it would show up on your DS10...
>
I threw a video card into the box & ran it off the graphics console. It
seems to like that better. I'll run it like that for a while.