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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Tim Gordanier <tim@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: "silo overflow" problems with Cyclades boards
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On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Tim Gordanier wrote:

> I work at Cyclades Corporation in the technical support department. 
> Cyclades manufactures multiport serial boards.  The kind heart people at
> FreeBSD have developed a driver for Cyclades Cyclom-Y family of
> multiport for FreeBSD. 

Hello!

> Here at Cyclades we have been getting customers having "SILO OVERFLOW"
> and/or
> "CY OVERFLOW" when using our brand boards for there dialup connections. 
> In the past we have been referring people to FreeBSD for help on this
> problem sense we did not develop the driver and are not sure were to
> find a solution.  I would like to know if there is a solution for the
> "SILO OVERFLOW" and/or "CY OVERFLOW" problem, this way we would not have
> to sent customers to FreeBSD for help in this case.  (Giving the great
> people at FreeBSD more time to do other duties. :-)

The `silo overflow' and `cy overflow' error messages means that the system
was receiving information faster than the kernel could process it, so
information was lost.

Solution:  reduce the port baud rate.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major