From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 11 21:12:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n66.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A861514F63 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n66.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20221; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3802B527.CB34008C@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:12:23 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness References: <199910120006.RAA15131@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > > >> So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get > >> the driver fixed? > > > >Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels > >before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to > >determine what characterises the failures and help David out with more > >data. > > Hotmail has troubleshooted the problem down to the NCR controller. It > appears that the problem only occurs when using one of those. If they plug > in an Adaptec 2940 and use it instead of the onboard NCR then the problems > disappear. Well that's not good, since I have almost convinced my boss to replace the crappy IDE drives on our shiny new Intel N440BX mb's with scsi drives since the controller is built in. :-/ Does this look like a soluble problem, or is it just going to be a case of "don't do that?" Anything I can do to help mail me and let me know. Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message