From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 08:04:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA12576 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hon.hn ([206.48.105.210]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA12549 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hon.hn.hon.hn (si1.hon.hn [206.48.253.70]) by hon.hn (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01500; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:03:38 GMT Message-ID: <32250841.182@hon.hn> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:02:25 +0600 From: "Samuel E. Romero" Reply-To: ser@hon.hn Organization: Honduras On Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List Subject: Re: Help with Bocaboard 2016 silo overflow's References: <21176.841282903@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doe's ppp (slirp, ppp or pppd) uses the disk for something when receiving a request for connection?. When I try to connect a Win95 Machine with dial-up networking with any of those programs, the same happens, and I got nothing on the PC. Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I have tried different speeds from 19200 up to 115200 without luck. > > Hmmmm. What happens if you transfer data from the serial port but > just throw it immediately away, e.g. don't attempt to copy anything > to/from the disk. If the silo overflows go away in this case then > it's likely that the IDE disk is hogging things and you should probably > swap it for a SCSI model. Otherwise, I have no idea. I run 115.2K > on a standard 16550 equipped serial port all day long and I get no > silo overflows at all on a P5/133. > > Jordan -- Samuel E. Romero Soluciones Internacionales ser@hon.hn Honduras On Net Tel. CC:(504)39-0547 Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. Honduras, C.A. --