Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 01:35:34 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: pol@leissner.se (Peter Olsson) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-boot crashes ICL-machines, anyone else had this? Message-ID: <199511230135.BAA27349@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9511221927.aa24851@lda.leissner.se> from "Peter Olsson" at Nov 22, 95 07:27:12 pm
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Peter Olsson stands accused of saying: > >Do the crashing machines have S3-based video hardware? > > The P100 has mac64, I don't know about the P75. Doesn't seem like this is > the problem (?) The problem is that a number of video cards (many S3-based, for starters) occupy the same port addresses as the fourth serial port. In order to successfully probe the second serial port in a four port system, it is necessary to write to the fourth port, which can upset some video adapters, possibly causing the system to crash. > A technician at Swedish ICL has exactly the same symptoms. He thougt it was > due to the P75 having only one serial port, so he tried setting in another, > but it didn't help. Then they wouldn't investigate any further, they instead > recommended a change to their supported unix-systems :( Morons. If it was a commercial system, they'd be sitting still twiddling their thumbs waiting for a patch. There are plenty of people who'd be more than happy to help them out fixing either their hardware or FreeBSD 8( > Peter Olsson Email: pol@leissner.se -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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