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To: Phil Gilley <pgilley@metronet.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with ed driver in 2.2.5 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 23:25:30 -0800
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>I couldn't figure out how to change the ISA bus speed on that PC so I
>tried a different 486/66 and SMC WD8013EPC.  This other machine has a
>very different motherboard and the combo version of the ethernet card.
>With this hardware the default 2.2.5 ed driver usually causes a "Fatal
>trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" at random addresses on FTP
>transfers.  When it does work I get transfer rates around 40 KB/s.
>If I disable the 0WS option in the ed driver things work fine.  Am I
>the only person experiencing this or am I just the only person still
>running old hardware?

   Thanks for the feedback. I've gone ahead and killed the 0WS option from
both -current and 2.2-stable.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project