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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 10:40:33 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is a "transmit underflow"?
Message-ID:  <99May12.102553est.40323@border.alcanet.com.au>

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Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
>This almost always happens for tulip chips && and alpha platforms and Matt
>Thomas' de driver.
...
>> > :de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 96|256)
>> > :de1: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 96|256)

It also occurs under Digital UNIX:
 vmunix: tu0: transmit FIFO underflow: threshold raised to: 512 bytes
 vmunix: tu1: transmit FIFO underflow: threshold raised to: 512 bytes

I suspect it's poor design of either the cards or bus.  (I've
previously queried DEC on why some SCSI cards were placed in
particular locations, and received the following answer: "We place the
SCSI cards as tested. We know that some cards don't work as well in
all slots so we supply the tested version.")

Peter


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