Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 01:50:51 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Cc: rich@spirit.com.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16 ports Boca - anyone using it? Message-ID: <199511270150.BAA02603@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199511252241.AAA09651@katiska.clinet.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Nov 26, 95 00:41:51 am
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Heikki Suonsivu stands accused of saying:
>
>
> My first card had bad probe problems, with the odd 1 or more ports
> simply not probing-on-boot.. Actually, this has stabilised greatly since I
> re-org'd the "guts" of that Server ;)
>
> We see lots of this after panics (usually a reboot cures it), on several
> machines. I tried adding multiple sio<n> lines in kernel config and it
> helps considerably. If the first probe does not see, often next or third
> one sees, but it still misses some ports sometimes (I have tried up to 8
> probes).
Check what the state of DCD on the ports is when your probes fail. I've
seen probes on multiport cards reliably fail when DCD is set. (I never
checked the probe code to see whether it was barfing on strangeness in
the LSR)
> it (NE2000 clones explain a lot of things :-).
We had a local politician attempting to blame ozone depletion on NE2000's.
(just kidding 8)
> Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
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