From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 23 10:21:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA07811 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07798 Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:21:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601231821.KAA07798@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: Host localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Tom Samplonius cc: "Heiko W.Rupp" , hwr@pilhuhn.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spontaneous reboot with -stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:13:31 PST." Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:21:23 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Heiko W.Rupp wrote: > >> Hm? Has your computer been stable before? > > Not with a 2940 in it. Disk hangs and total lockups were common under >the old driver. Problems were also experienced with wcarchive, which is >why a lot of the changes were made. > > It seems that only users with 2842's (and maybe 2742's) seem to have a >problem with the new driver. > >Tom People experiencing problems with eisa devices (or "eisa like" devices such as the 2842) under -stable should change the probe order in i386/i386/autoconf.c to see if it increases stability. Simply put the eisa_configure() call after the call to isa_configure(). I believe there to be a conflict between the two bus probes or between eisa and isa drivers that were masked by the old probe order. I'm still investigating. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================