Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:14:24 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: "PSI, Mike Smith" <mlsmith@mitre.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tracking down system freeze Message-ID: <20011206131424.T92148@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200112060500.fB650MM86929@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:00:22PM -0700 References: <20011205144450.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C0E641B.F65BAC6@mitre.org> <20011205144450.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <200112060500.fB650MM86929@harmony.village.org>
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* Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> [011205 23:00] wrote: > In message <20011205144450.L92148@elvis.mu.org> Alfred Perlstein writes: > : What you do is fold a paperclip then use it to make the last > : two pins of the ISA bus short: > > and it doesn't work on PCI bus, or any other bus than ISA (except > maybe EISA). I have a small ISA card that I have connected to the > parallel port for remote NMI generation/reset. But it is a gross > hack. It will work so long as none of the busses leading from ISA to the cpu are locked up. So it will work on a PCI system so long as the PCI bus or system bus is not locked. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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