From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 16:42:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA02052 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 16:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xs1.simplex.nl (xs1.simplex.NL [193.78.46.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA02041 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 16:42:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Organisation-1: Simplex Networking Amsterdam X (Inter)Network X-Organisation-2: Kruislaan 419-38a 1098 VA Amsterdam X Solutions & X-Organisation-3: tel:+31(20)-6932433 fax:+31(20)-6685486 X Access Provider Received: (from rob@localhost) by xs1.simplex.nl (8.7.5/8.7.3-RS) id BAA00567 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:41:31 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:41:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rob Simons Message-Id: <199607132341.BAA00567@xs1.simplex.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boca BB2016 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm having some problems with my Boca Board BB2016 (I think that's the type, 16 port dumb serial). Almost every time I have to cold-boot the machine, which happens maybe three/four times a year, the Boca board seems to have lost about half of it's ports. Which ports are gone is seemingly random, but most that are gone are in the 1-8 region. Untill now I could solve this by waiting for about 15 minutes, and then performing a warm reboot. Today this didn't help anything. About 8 ports were gone, and no reboot helped anything. After a reboot there were still about 7-10 ports gone, in random order. I decided to take the box apart, put it in the fridge for a fast cooling, and when it was cold connected it again and rebooted. All of a sudden things seemed to work again. (No it's not my habbit to put inoperative equipment in the fridge, but it seemed like a fast way to cool it down ;-) Does the above problem sound familiar to someone, and if so, is there a way to make sure the board will work even when it's hot and the machine power cycles ? I'm running FreeBSD 2.1R on this machine. Thanks, - Rob. /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ /* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ /* ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ------- *\ /* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\