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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:41:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger)
To:        root@vhf.dataradio.com (Andrew Webster)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.0 doesn't always see serial ports!
Message-ID:  <m0rqwgo-000rbxC@easynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950320172453.24320B-100000@vhf.dataradio.com> from "Andrew Webster" at Mar 20, 95 05:27:16 pm

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> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is actually an adendum to the gated problem I posted not too long 
> ago.  When the system crashes, after the reboot, it does not see 6 of the 
> 8 ports on a digiboard pc8 card.  I've configured it as described in the 
> SIO(4) documentation for a BOCA board with a shared IRQ, flags 0x905.  
> When this happends, if I do a manual reboot (sync;sync;sync;reboot), the 
> system comes backup correctly with all serial ports visible.
> 
> Could there be a timing problem in the driver somewhere?

I have a PCMCIA based 16550A UART in a laptop of mine, which FreeBSD
misses sometimes too.

I run an enabler from DOS before booting FreeBSD.

Brian Litzinger
brian@easynet.com



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