Re: Nvidia MCP55 Machine reboots on ixgb driver load

[Roger Heflin]

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I have seen something similiar with the ixgb.   make certain there are 
> **NO** other adapters sharing the PCI bus with the
> ixgb.   There are some serious hardware compatibility issues with the 
> ixgb mixing it with other cards on the same PCI-X bus,
> and I have seen power loading problems, performance slowdowns, reboots, 
> and other issues when an ixgb is installed in a
> system.

It is on its own pci-x bus with no other cards on the
pci slots that are on the same bus, the machine in question has
4 slots divided into 2 buses.

                        Roger

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