Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:19:59 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, marius@alchemy.franken.de Subject: Re: Solid hangs caused by pcm Message-ID: <20010907201959.A344@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200109070136.f871akT01296@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:36:46PM -0700 References: <XFMail.010906170502.jdp@polstra.com> <20010907032058.A33679@alchemy.franken.de> <200109070136.f871akT01296@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:36:46PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <20010907032058.A33679@alchemy.franken.de>, > <marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote: > > > screwdriver-in-the-ISA-slot trick. We're talking hit the reset button > > > here. > > > > uhm, a bit off-topic, but how das that trick work ? is it about triggering > > an hardware interrupt? is it documented somewhere ? > > On most (but not all) motherboards, you can generate an NMI by > shorting a certain pair of pins in an ISA connector. If you try this > and fry your motherboard, don't complain to me. The pins to short > together are the two ISA pins (one on each side of the slot) nearest > the back of the case (where the external connectors are). Don't do > this on a PCI slot. Be careful that you short the pins only to each > other, and not to anything else. he he he ;-) ;-) I still remember the face of that software engineer when I grabbed my ballpoint pen and did this for him. Somewhat green his face was.. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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