Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:21:23 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: "Heiko W.Rupp" <hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de>, hwr@pilhuhn.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spontaneous reboot with -stable Message-ID: <199601231821.KAA07798@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:13:31 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960123091050.12568A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
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> >On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Heiko W.Rupp wrote: > >> Hm? Has your computer been stable before? > > Not with a 2940 in it. Disk hangs and total lockups were common under >the old driver. Problems were also experienced with wcarchive, which is >why a lot of the changes were made. > > It seems that only users with 2842's (and maybe 2742's) seem to have a >problem with the new driver. > >Tom People experiencing problems with eisa devices (or "eisa like" devices such as the 2842) under -stable should change the probe order in i386/i386/autoconf.c to see if it increases stability. Simply put the eisa_configure() call after the call to isa_configure(). I believe there to be a conflict between the two bus probes or between eisa and isa drivers that were masked by the old probe order. I'm still investigating. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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