In some mail I received from Justin T. Gibbs, sie wrote
> 
> >Is the sharing problem with the Adaptec?  I have a machine here which
> >seem to share two IRQs between two NICS quite happily.  I have
> >dc21140-based Ethernet in in now sharing an IRQ with a gigabit NIC,
> > but a couple of months ago it had a 3c595 and that seemed to work
> >okay, modulo defining _LOSING_COMPILER.
> 
> I don't think that the Adaptec's have any intrinsic problem with
> sharing interrupts.  In Pluto's "Digital Space Recorder", there are
> 20 aic7880 chips split between 2 hardware interrupts and they run
> just fine under FreeBSD.

well, freebsd 2.2.1 doesn't get past probing the scsi bus when the adaptec
driver shares an interrupt with one of the NICs.

and linux 2.1.46 stops after a bus reset.

Darren