From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 13:50:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA17978 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from trojanhorse.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA17942 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:49:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by trojanhorse.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA02431; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:48:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:48:42 -0800 (PST) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Alexander Litvin cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyclades :( In-Reply-To: <19971029101640.62720@grape.carrier.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ... Maybye you should let Cyclades do the drivers. They might work then. > I'm just curious why the Cyclades are mentioned as the "first choice" > in the handbook? Nobody has any problems with them? > > I agree -- ISA cy works. As for PCI... > > Though, the "funny" fact: with PCI cy our box seem to reboot > (not panic) or lockup in some minutes after coming up when... > we use getty! And with mgetty works. I understand that getty > and mgetty use different devices, and the problem has somthing > to do with that, but it simply reboots, so we don't have > place to start debugging... > > The problem was reproduced with 4 different motherboards and 2 > Cyclades cards, so problem with faulty hardware could be > neglected. Tested with 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3.0-SNAP from about the > middle of August, 2.2-STABLE from some two weeks before 2.2.5. > > -- > Litvin Alexander >