Re: Tulip driver bug in 2.4.17 (fwd)

From: Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 22:58:06 EST


David Lang wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>
>>You're not using a PCI extender/riser card, are you?
>>
>
> Yes, (it's in a 2u rackmount case). it's a low right-angle extender

You're screwed :)

It seems to be a hardware/PCI problem. I replaced 4-port NICS (the DFE-570-TX),
motherboards, cpus, entire chassis...the problem followed the riser cards.

To debug, take off the face-plates of your NICS and run them in your box
w/out the riser..or take the MB completely out of the case. I'll bet
you a dozen realtec nics that that will fix your lockup problem! :)

While you're doing that...order a $54 riser from adexelec.com. Their
riser fixed the problem for me. If the riser isn't obvious on
Adex's page, let me know and I'll find the version of the one I got.

Btw, if you find a butter-fly riser for a 1U chassis that works, let
me know..cause I see the same problem in my 1U servers...

Enjoy,
Ben

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