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Date:      Sat, 29 Aug 1998 16:26:33 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cyclades Cyclom-Y series multiport board
Message-ID:  <19980829162633.A8988@ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980829133451.008d0100@lda>; from Peter Olsson on Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 01:34:52PM %2B0200
References:  <3.0.32.19980829133451.008d0100@lda>

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On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 01:34:52PM +0200, Peter Olsson wrote:
> >Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:35:44 +0300
> >From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
> >Subject: Re: Cyclades Cyclom-Y series multiport board 
> >
> >On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 01:49:27PM -0700, Brandon Huey wrote:
> >>  
> >> is this supported under freebsd?
> >>  
> >
> >Ä I have CC'ed this to -hackers in hope to bring someone's attention up Å
> >
> >The following results are true for -stable:
> >
> >PCI (YeP) cards are not working (they are constantly produce ésilo
> overflows').
> 
> Now when you mention it... I haven't checked messages and now I find a
> lot of:
> cy1: 304 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 2328)
> 
> This is in 2.2.6-RELEASE.
> 
> It seems to work fine anyway but maybe I'm missing something I haven't
> noticed. What does the above error message mean exactly? Am I losing
> data on the line?
> 

Peter,

According to the cy(4):
* cy%d: tty-level buffer overflow.  Problem in the application.  Input has
* arrived faster than the given module could process it and some has been
* lost.

Actually this means that there are problems somewhere in FreeBSD kernel
or Cyclades Cyclom-Y driver.
This is happening only with PCI Cyclom-Y cards (for me).
So, I guess you're using Cyclom YeP version, right?

1. login via serial port
2. run yes(1) (it will print `y' until interrupted)
3. switch to console (/dev/console)

You'll see your console is full of ``buffer overflow'' messages.
And, YES, you're loosing data. Sometime ago I was using 8YeP card,
and I had problems with dial-in ppp due to this `overflows'.
After I switched to ISA card (now I use 16Ye rev.1.x) the problems are
disappeared.

With best Regards,
-- 
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