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From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu), rich@spirit.com.au,
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Subject: Re: 16 ports Boca - anyone using it?
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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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