Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 16:18:04 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> To: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Amancio's latest mods to bt848 driver (removal of floating point) Message-ID: <19970525161804.37676@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970525122600.299A-100000@uhf.wdc.net>; from Bernie Doehner on Sun, May 25, 1997 at 12:30:42PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970525104013.326B-100000@uhf.wdc.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970525122600.299A-100000@uhf.wdc.net>
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Bernie Doehner scribbled this message on May 25: > Just ran fxtv for over 30 minutes and didn't get ANY IDE timeouts, but I > also killed inetd/sendmail and other programs that are likely to exercise > the disk. > > However, as soon as I started heavy disk activity (concatenating several > large files together), fxtv totaly froze and I had to reboot.. Not even > IDE timeout messages, everything, but fxtv froze. hmm... maybe this is similar to my problems that I have... as one of the crashes that I had caused ed0: device timeout's... i.e. intrupts stop working... major different is that I'm running SCSI... and it might be a conflict between the two... once I was able to manipulate windows and such.. but the windows were swapped out, so they were never updated... > If I don't kill inetd/sendmail, etc and run fxtv (in a small window) in > doesn't fataly crash any more, just I do get ocassional IDE timeout > errors. > > For those of you who "tuned in late", I must the only person trying to run > a Wincast board on a 486/120 and it seems the DMA is taking too much time > on the bus. I don't know... I think there is something else wrong... as you can see, my system is a 486 bases system too... have you check to make sure your mb is pci2.1 compliant? I haven't gotten around to check mine out... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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