From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 14 21:27:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA27065 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA27058 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24569; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709150410.VAA24569@implode.root.com> To: "Sergey Kovalenko" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sync card? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:48:05 +0400." <199709142347.CAA20283@relay1.nk.ukrtel.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:10:06 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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