NCR53C815 vs Tulip: sharing IRQ fails

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Hardware Stuff wrote:

> I have a system that's not short on IRQs, but in which the BIOS
> insists on giving the DTC 3130B NCR53C815 and the D-Link DFE500-Tx
> 21040 the same IRQ.  The NCR53C815 reports obtaining a shared IRQ and
> functions fine, while it's impossible to ifconfig the Tulip.  It's an
> i386 2.0.36 kernel with the latest patches for the NCR.
> 
> I'm be happy if I could force either card to a different IRQ, but
> nothing has worked yet.  Has anyone had this setup working?

Read the instructions in
   http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/irq-conflict.html
for info on how to fix the SCSI driver -- it's using the wrong flags for
requesting the interrupt.

Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
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