Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 18:42:52 -0800 (PST) From: bmk@dtr.com To: a16788@itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx (Paredes Sanchez Martin Alejandro) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multiport BOCA serial boards - working (sort of) Message-ID: <199501100242.SAA00492@dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950110111352.10676D-100000@itesocci> from "Paredes Sanchez Martin Alejandro" at Jan 10, 95 04:06:21 pm
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> Sorry I don't know your name. Brant Katkansky. [snip] I ended up configuring the board to coexist with my existing I/O card: sio2-sio7 sharing IRQ 5. I had to relocate my tape controller to eliminate a conflict: # ports on standard atio card device sio0 at isa? port 0x3f8 tty irq 4 vector siointr device sio1 at isa? port 0x2f8 tty irq 3 vector siointr # ports on boca ioat66 device sio2 at isa? port 0x220 tty flags 0x705 device sio3 at isa? port 0x228 tty flags 0x705 device sio4 at isa? port 0x3e8 tty flags 0x705 device sio5 at isa? port 0x2e8 tty flags 0x705 device sio6 at isa? port 0x3e0 tty flags 0x705 device sio7 at isa? port 0x2e0 tty flags 0x705 irq 5 vector siointr After compiling the kernel and installing the card, I booted the system to single user. All eight ports were recognized, so it looks good. I haven't had the opportunity to actually test them. (Anyone know a source for 10 conductor RJ45 to DB25?) Anyways, I attempted to bring the system up to multiuser at this point. This is where the fun really began. :( Fsck failed on /dev/rsd2a with a "device not configured" error. fdisk and disklabel looked fine. I've seen this before, and restoring the disklabel always worked in the past. So I restored the disklabel on rsd2d, and rebooted the system. Same story. I went through this process a couple more times, and what ended up working was: disklabel -r -w /dev/rsd2d cdc_94171-327 sync; sync; sync; reboot The only difference from the other three times was that I shut it down without manually syncing and did a shutdown -r instead. So I rebooted again, let it come up to multi-user... It appeared to hang loading mountd. I waited for a couple of minutes, and finally ended up doing a ^C, and let rc and rc.local finish their business. This machine is configured as an xdm server, and it came up normally, except that the keyboard was unresponsive. I couldn't switch to another virtual console as I used to be able to, and I couldn't enter my username/password at the xdm prompt. So I telnetted in from another machine, killed xdm hoping that I'd get a login prompt. No luck, just a blank screen and a flashing cursor. Again, I couldn't switch to another virtual console. I disabled xdm and mountd and rebooted the system. Everything else at this point seems very normal. Anybody got any clues they want to give me?
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