Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:44:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Holm Tiffe <freebsd@magnet.geophysik.tu-freiberg.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIO problems since long time ago.. Message-ID: <199810051244.OAA01944@magnet.geophysik.tu-freiberg.de> In-Reply-To: <199810051215.WAA16784@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 5, 98 10:15:55 pm"
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> >first, for the commiters, there funny is a typo in sio.c from
( <-----> )
> >-current at line 207:
> >
> >>/* com device structure */
> >>struct com_s {
> >> u_int id_flags; /* Copy isa device falgas */
> >> u_char state; /* miscellaneous flag bits */
> >
> >:-) what the heck is a "falga" ?
>
> It's one of the bugs committed in rev.1.194. The bugs are harmless if
> you don't use any of the new falgas.
Hmm, :-) I've never used falgas, should I ?
>
[..]
>
> If the whole system freezes then it's most likely an AST4 board problem
> (too much soldering? :-).
I think, I CAN work with an soldering Iron !!! :-)
(Have you ever soldered an entire WORKING computer by your self ?)
(was an CP/M machine)
> If only the ports freeze then it might be
> a chip or cable or configuration problem. The output routine will
> wait forever if the timeout (drainwait in comcontrol(8)) is 0 and the
> cable is connected to something with RTS unasserted, or if there are
> certain hardware bugs. This is easy to work around by setting drainwait.
The entire machine is freezing, there is no response even on the network ports,
and I've never had such problems with THIS card on my home machine, the same
problem exists on the 2S1P card, where the sio is socketed. But it is the same
type of sio.
The cable is a standard modem type, 25 pins one to one connected, and the modem
a standard rockwell based one.
Holm
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