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Re: USB cards for PWS 433au



On 23/06/12 18:43, Bob Tracy wrote:
> I recently retired an old AMD K6-III/450 system that had a serviceable
> USB controller in it, so I tried transplanting it to my Alpha.  The
> kernel seems to detect it just fine and load the appropriate drivers,
> but there's evidently a conflict of some kind between the USB card and
> my Radeon 7500.  

The infamous PWS PCI DMA hardware bug maybe?

Are you putting the USB card in the 64 bit or 32 bit slot?  I think the
recommendation is *not* to put anything involving data storage in the 64
bit slots of any 1st generation PWS.

Cheers
Michael.


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