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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:11:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
To:        Greg Robinson <greg@rosevale.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Silo Overflows on Alpha......
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990919111101.wwoods@cybcon.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909191219.VAA17758@sad.rosevale.com.au>

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I don't happen to have the manual with it, but if this is the case it severely
sucks....Do internal modems work any better? I can always put my internal in it
and the external on the PC...

On 19-Sep-99 Greg Robinson wrote:
>> I have an Alphastation 200 4/233 running 3.2-R (I am TRYING to cvsup to
>> 3.3-Stable) and I keep getting silo overflows when connected to the net with
>> an
>> external modem at anything over 9600.
>> 
>> The exact messages are:
>> 
>> Sep 17 22:10:30 alpha /kerne;: sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 300)
>>     17 22:10:45 alpha /kerne;: sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 301)
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>> Can anyone shed some light on this...
> 
> Hi Will,
> 
> I think that the Alpha serial ports can only do 9600, just like
> Suns can only do 38400.  You dont happen to have the hardware manual
> for it?  I can probably look in one of our manuals at work, but I
> haven't seen anything about it.
> 
> Hmm, we have a recent Alpha with a serial console, and it can only do
> 9600.  Had a devil of a time trying to make it do hardware handshaking
> as well..
> 
> Maybe the tru64-alpha-managers mailing list can help you.
> 
> Greg.

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Date: 19-Sep-99
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