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From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com>
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Subject: Re: crash
To: jc@irbs.com (John Capo)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:41:44 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nathan@netrail.net, current@FreeBSD.org, et-users@netrail.net,
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> 
> Nathan Stratton writes:
> > 
> > 
> > I am using a 486 DX4 100 as a router, I have a T1 from sprint and a T1 
> > form mci connected to it. I also have two 10 meg ethernet cards. It is 
> > running freebsd 2.0.5 and has about 31,000 routes in it's routing table. 
> > Well my problem is every day or so it will crash. My T1 cards need to be 
> > reset befoer they reboot so when the system reboots it just locks up 
> > becaue the T1 cards were not reset.
> > 
> > I changed my reboot command to reset the cards, so if I do a shutdown it 
> > works great and resets my cards. But what it looks like when the system 
> > crashes it does not run reboot. What does it run? How can I make my 
> > system reset my T1 cards just after it crashes and befoer it reboots the 
> > system?
> > 
> 
> The kernel does not run any user land programs after a panic.  The
> T1 cards should be reset by the driver when they are attached.
> Dennis???

I believe the problem is that the system cannot successfully reboot unless
the cards are reset before the reboot attempt.  Which doesn't happen in
a crash.

On the other hand, if you run the cards in 8 bit mode the problem will
go away.

Brian Litzinger
brian@Mediacity.com