Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:59:49 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Problem Message-ID: <4.3.2.20010519114538.0198c7c0@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <f0433016bb72b0a3f0d23@[10.0.1.100]> References: <4.3.2.20010518093939.02d8aad0@207.227.119.2> <4.3.2.20010517174928.02d75b00@207.227.119.2> <20010516014155.A19796@the-7.net> <20010516014155.A19796@the-7.net> <4.3.2.20010517174928.02d75b00@207.227.119.2> <4.3.2.20010518093939.02d8aad0@207.227.119.2>
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At 10:33 AM 5/18/01 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: >Unfortunately not possible for another 6 months. I get a lot of >dissatisfied customers if I reboot. I try to keep it to once a year when >I upgrade the OS. You upgraded from ??? to 4.3R? >Custom, but only a couple of buffer size parameters have been changed and >had to add the old ISA parameters to ep to get the 3Com NIC to work. My fix was to toss 'em or give them away. ;) >No IDE at the moment. I will try that next year. Or just remove the bit that aren't needed from the kernel. Usually I leave one IDE drive set to "auto" in the BIOS to slow the POST. Allows a little extra time to jump into the BIOS config at least for some boards that come up too fast. >>Do you have 3 network cards? > >No just 2. I don't understand why the second one is ep1. > >> >>As is dc0 and ep1 are trying to use the same IRQ. It would help if you >>listed the hardware. > >Don't have a specific list. There are 2 SCSI disks 8 and 4 GB. 1 Adaptec >SCSI controller, 1 Netgear 10/100 NIC, 1 3Com 10 NIC. 1 SCSI CDROM. The >duplicate IRQs are fascinating. The dc0 was not on 5 for the next to last >boot when I switched the 3Com ep definition to specify the ISA >parameters. However, this delay problem has existed for at least 3 >years. We don't boot the machine but about once a year for OS upgrades so >its not a significant issue, but I don't want to have bad hardware bring >me down at an inconvenient time. These machines are all remote and unattended. Guess it would be nice to have a 4th for upgrades and they were the same. However, if only booting is slow and nothing else is wrong then solving this would be a low priority. You say this has happened for 3 years, what was the last release that didn't pause? Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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