From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 22 9:58:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B42153F7 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id BAA14151; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:58:04 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37974D8D.470BAFBB@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:57:49 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lynn Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Always check serial cables!! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lynn wrote: > > Well I found me freakin problem... serial cable > was bad OR not meant for my particular mb!! Now > how often do serial cables go bad you ask ? > This is a first for me! For a minute there I > thought just maybe the kernel was lying about > finding sio0 ... How often? If there is a cable involved in the problem, no matter what type of cable, it is always the one most likely to be the culprit, in my experience. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message