Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 21:11:58 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 crash during "monthly" maintenance batch Message-ID: <199808050312.VAA11945@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199808050021.RAA25462@usr02.primenet.com> References: <199808041637.KAA03017@lariat.lariat.org>
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Why would this suddenly start affecting us when we moved from 2.2.2 to 2.2.7? That part of the "ed" driver has not changed much. Also, doubt that this would cause the whole system to reboot spontaneously after nearly a day of working fine (and passing heavy Internet traffic). Now, using the extended memory range of the Artisoft card (by plugging in bigger static RAM chips) WOULD break the driver. I will eventually figure out what it's doing and send in a patch. --Brett At 12:21 AM 8/5/98 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> 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
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