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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:10:06 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Sergey Kovalenko" <sergey@nk.ukrtel.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sync card? 
Message-ID:  <199709150410.VAA24569@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:48:05 %2B0400." <199709142347.CAA20283@relay1.nk.ukrtel.net> 

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> >Sorry for intrudision, but we have a lot of problems with PCI Cyclades
>16Y.
>>First, our terminal server (2.2.1, P120, 2 SCSI HDD) completely refused
>>to work properly with them -- it persistently crashed in some ten minutes
>>after boot, when all 15 modems were on. With 10 modems it crashed in half
>>an hour. All that was accompanied with silo overflows (hundreds of them
>>on each port). The same thing happened with the other terminal server
>>(2.2.2, P100 IDE HDD) -- here it was only 8 lines which caused crash in
>>some ten minutes after boot. So we switched back to digi and ISA Cyclades.
>
>I have absolutely same problem. Random reboot+data loss.
>
>I think, that Cyclom-Y driver for PCI card is in alpha quality. :(

   The ISA and PCI drivers are the same driver. The PCI support is only a
small chunk of code that does the appropriate mapping of the card into
memory and enables interrupts.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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