[TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems

[Steve Williams]

The kind of hardware wrangling mentioned below reminded me of an article I
read this morning in Information Week

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901660&pgno=1

-Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Vestal" <rvestal at trilug.org>
To: <marty.ferguson at pobox.com>; "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list"
<trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems


> I have one PCI card, the NIC. The SCSI is an AHA-1520 ISA PnP card. I've
got
> a 2940 around here somewhere, I just didn't want to waist it on a CD
tower.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marty Ferguson" <marty at rtmx.net>
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:40 AM
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems
>
>
> > Roy,
> >
> > Did you try just swapping around PCI cards into different slots?
> > The enumeration of the IO space is kind of arbitrary.  There are
> > more sophisticated ways to eliminate these problems, if indeed these
> > problems are due to PCI bus mastering and priority. But the wrote
> > approach of just trying different slots untill you get a combination
> > that works properly is the conventional wisdom.
> >
> > Marty
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> > Behalf Of Roy Vestal
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:22 AM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems
> >
> >
> > Ok, here's a weird one.
> >
> > The LVM machine that I mentioned earilier this week, well, yeah, they
gave
> > me another old box to replace it. So I moved my nic and good drives and
> scsi
> > card. I loaded FC1 AND WBEL on this thing. Whenever I went graphical,
I'd
> > loose the mouse and keyboard.
> >
> > After many hours/days of pulling hair, rebuilding the os, removing
> modules,
> > unloading services, I started trying hardware. I removed the SCSI card
> > (AHA-1520) that I hang a CD tower off and it worked!  I now have
graphical
> > keyboard and mouse!
> >
> > Any suggestions?  BTW, I'm tossing the card.
> >
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