D-Link DE-530CT Locks up PCI

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike@swm.pp.se
Fri Aug 28 04:38:43 1998


On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Tim Dixon wrote:

> I reported this problem some long time ago and got no answer; I've
> subsequently upgraded to the current released driver version and have
> the same problem, so I wonder if anyone has had further thoughts...
> 
> The problem is that if I put a lot of traffic through a D-Link
> DE-530CT+ card it appears to lock up the PCI bus - the disk controller
> starts to complain of timeouts and the system hangs. This happens
> quite reproducibly.  Is this likely to be a driver problem, a card
> problem or a BIOS/Motherboard problem?

I have pretty much the same problem but with a 3com 590. Check with "cat
/proc/interrupts" if your scsi-controller and network card are sharing
IRQ. Mine are, and I suspect that is what is causing it.

----- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se