Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 04:39:16 +0200 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu), rich@spirit.com.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16 ports Boca - anyone using it? Message-ID: <199511270239.EAA24909@katiska.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: <199511270150.BAA02603@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199511252241.AAA09651@katiska.clinet.fi> <199511270150.BAA02603@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith writes:
> > 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
...
> > We see lots of this after panics (usually a reboot cures it), on several
> > machines. I tried adding multiple sio<n> lines in kernel config and it
...
> 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)
Usually the ports which fail have DCD set, I haven't verified it but they
probably are as they are either leased lines, or in some cases modems which
were connected when crash happens.
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