From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Feb 22 07:50:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16714 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 07:50:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA16683; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 07:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA27299; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 16:50:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07757; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 16:25:32 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 16:25:32 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Subject: Re: kern/1020 References: <199702212120.NAA24007@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702212120.NAA24007@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Mike Pritchard on Feb 21, 1997 13:20:01 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike Pritchard wrote: > Feedback from the originator: > > David Muir Sharnoff wrote: > > I stopped using my BOCA long ago because of this problem. > > > > I still have the boca and with a bit of work I could have it > > talk to itself. > > > > Unless someone did something that would fix the problem, I expect > > it's still there. > > > > In discussions on the FreeBSD list, it turns out that the there > > is a workaround: when the boca freezes up, modify /etc/ttys to turn > > all the ports off, hup init, and turn them back on. sax.sax.de is running a Boca2016 without this problem. We currently use 8 out of the 16 ports, and the only bug we've experienced so far is that if the machine crashes while interrupt conditions are pending, it fails to probe (some of) the ports. I think that's a known BOCA disease however, and it could always be solved by cleanly rebooting the machine again (so that all processes were stopped before, thus no interrupts are pending). We are running our ports at 57600, i believe. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)