Having problem with a sever which has 18 PCI slots to run 18 PCMC IA cards

[Khamar, Kalpit K (Kalpit)]

Hi All,
Is it true that PCI to PCMAIA Elan digital adapter ( or any PCI to PCMCIA adapter) make BIOS call on PCI BUS 0 or BUS 1 or BUS 2 only?
I have a system where i have PCI BUS 4 or BUS 8 and on that system i am able to see PCMCIA adapter but any PCMCIA card i slide in that will not be seen by OS. Any solution to resolve this issue or problem?
Thanks
Kalpit


-----Original Message-----
From: Khamar, Kalpit K (Kalpit) 
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:35 AM
To: 'David Hinds'; Randy.Dunlap
Cc: 'linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org'
Subject: RE: Having problem with a sever which has 18 PCI slots to run
18 PCMC IA cards


Hi Dave, Rudy and All,
Forgot to mention earlier that if i will put only one PCI to PCMCIA adapter in PCI slot ( except slot 1st 2nd 9th and 10th ) still i am not able to see PCMCIA card. So if i use only one PCI to PCMCIA adapters or multiple adapters, only those 4 slots are working all the time. SO if it is resource issue then at least one card work on any PCI slot but that's not the case. Please advice me to fix or find this problem.
Thanks
Kalpit

-----Original Message-----
From: David Hinds [mailto:dhinds at sonic.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:36 PM
To: Randy.Dunlap
Cc: Khamar, Kalpit K (Kalpit); 'linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org'
Subject: Re: Having problem with a sever which has 18 PCI slots to run
18 PCMC IA cards


On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:48:46PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> >        Memory window 0: f8701000-f8702000 (prefetchable)
> >        Memory window 1: f8703000-f8704000
> >        I/O window 0: 0000d000-0000d103
> >        I/O window 1: 0000d200-0000d303
> 
> That's an unfortunate I/O window size (wastes lots of IO space).

I'd say it's a case of bad resource management, since all the bridge
windows seem to be consuming 2X their intended sizes, due to bad
alignment of the upper window bounds.  I don't know if that is the
fault of the kernel or the BIOS.

-- Dave