From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 17:22:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25379 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25315 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27889; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:21:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd027863; Tue Aug 4 17:21:39 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25462; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:21:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808050021.RAA25462@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 2.2.7 crash during "monthly" maintenance batch To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:21:37 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808041637.KAA03017@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Aug 4, 98 10:36:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Here's yet more info. The system is a 486DX4/100 made by Zeos. 16 MB of RAM, > WD 2.5 GB IDE drive, Artisoft AE-3 network adapter (it's an NE2000 clone), > several multiport serial cards. I can post the output from dmesg if it'd > help. Worked like a champ up until the upgrade, is now rebooting spontaneously > when I run heavy-duty apps. Also rebooted during a kernel recompile. A number of the Artisoft cards running in 16 bit mode instead of8-bit mode were well known to have a byte-swap problem for the last byte of an odd length packet. The workaround was to either run in 8-bit mode, or to do the swap in the driver if you detected one of these cards (also to never send odd length packets). This could be related to the crash, if you are running a different driver. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message