From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 26 17:58:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA20059 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:58:40 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA20046 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:58:22 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA02603; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:50:52 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511270150.BAA02603@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 16 ports Boca - anyone using it? To: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:50:51 +0000 () Cc: rich@spirit.com.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511252241.AAA09651@katiska.clinet.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Nov 26, 95 00:41:51 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1366 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Heikki Suonsivu stands accused of saying: > > > My first card had bad probe problems, with the odd 1 or more ports > simply not probing-on-boot.. Actually, this has stabilised greatly since I > re-org'd the "guts" of that Server ;) > > We see lots of this after panics (usually a reboot cures it), on several > machines. I tried adding multiple sio lines in kernel config and it > helps considerably. If the first probe does not see, often next or third > one sees, but it still misses some ports sometimes (I have tried up to 8 > probes). Check what the state of DCD on the ports is when your probes fail. I've seen probes on multiport cards reliably fail when DCD is set. (I never checked the probe code to see whether it was barfing on strangeness in the LSR) > it (NE2000 clones explain a lot of things :-). We had a local politician attempting to blame ozone depletion on NE2000's. (just kidding 8) > Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[