From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 16:40:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17349 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17197 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:40:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.05demon1 #1) id 0zgec2-0005Eb-00; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:39:51 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id AAA00311; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:39:18 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20765; Fri, 20 Nov 98 00:39:15 GMT Message-Id: <3654B766.A385BA9B@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:27:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial port errors References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 mwlucas@exceptionet.com wrote: > > > I recently blew my machine's onboard serial port 2. Went out and bought an > > add-on card for two more serial ports, set them up as sio2 and sio3, and got > > back one the Net. sio1 is disabled in the BIOS and stripped out of the > > kernel. > > > > Now I'm getting this error. sio3 is plugged into my modem. > > > > Nov 19 09:22:39 panic /kernel: sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total 1) > > > > Anyone know what this means? > > It means that data is coming through faster than the system can deal with > it. > Also check the serial cable, particularly that the shield is connected properly. I had this problem with a SUN with a DNC serial link to the shop floor. The (so called, ha bloody ha) professional network company that laid the cables for us made a join in one of them by twisting the conductors together and wrapping them in insulating tape :-(). As the cables passed near to some arc welding equipment the amount of noise picked up resulted in >2MB per day!!! of "silo overflow" errors being written to /var/adm/messages, result? file system full. If your serial cable is in poor condition and near the mains cable (which it probably is at the back of a PC) it could be picking up noise. The fact that you had to mess around the back of the PC means you've disturbed the cabling which maybe why you didn't have the problem before. HTH > What FreeBSD version? > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.uk.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message