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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Soundblaster card is hanging my system Date: 08 Feb 1996 21:05:37 -0500 Organization: Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT Lines: 28 Sender: shivers@lambda.ai.mit.edu Message-ID: <qijspgltfri.fsf@lambda.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: shivers@ai.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lambda.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 I am trying to install a 16 bit Soundblaster in my Pentium/PCI box. I am not using the SCSI controller, as I already have an Adaptec SCSI controller. When my system comes up, in the very early stages of the boot my PC prints out a report from my Adaptec card, which tells me of the three devices on its SCSI chain. After printing out the third one, the system hangs. If I remove the Soundblaster card, the boot doesn't hang. It proceeds normally, printing out "BIOS installed" or somesuch, and then goes to the boot loader (the one that asks you what kernel you want to boot, etc.). My Soundblaster is fresh out of the box. I suspect that the unused SCSI interface is the problem, but I see no jumpers in the manual for turning off the SCSI subsystem. The Soundblaster has the factory defaults: SCSI on IRQ 11 and audio on IRQ 5. I compiled my kernel with the config spec below. These lines are taken out of the FreeBSD handbook, with two changes: I changed irq 7 to 5, and added the SBC_IRQ=5 option. I did this because my lpt0 device is already using IRQ 7. Can anyone help me figure this out? I confess that I am pretty ignorant of this level of PC's. -Olin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr options "SBC_IRQ=5" device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330