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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:41:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Rob Simons <rob@xs1.simplex.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Boca BB2016
Message-ID:  <199607132341.BAA00567@xs1.simplex.nl>

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Hi,

I'm having some problems with my Boca Board BB2016 (I think that's 
the type, 16 port dumb serial).  
Almost every time I have to cold-boot the machine, which happens 
maybe three/four times a year, the Boca board seems to have lost 
about half of it's ports. Which ports are gone is seemingly random,
but most that are gone are in the 1-8 region.

Untill now I could solve this by waiting for about 15 minutes, and
then performing a warm reboot. 

Today this didn't help anything. About 8 ports were gone, and no
reboot helped anything. After a reboot there were still about 
7-10 ports gone, in random order.

I decided to take the box apart, put it in the fridge for a fast 
cooling, and when it was cold connected it again and rebooted.
All of a sudden things seemed to work again.
(No it's not my habbit to put inoperative equipment in the fridge,
but it seemed like a fast way to cool it down ;-)


Does the above problem sound familiar to someone, and if so, is
there a way to make sure the board will work even when it's hot
and the machine power cycles ?

I'm running FreeBSD 2.1R on this machine.

Thanks,

- Rob.

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