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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:59:43 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, dg@root.com, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness
Message-ID:  <v0420550cb42a5ca004ee@[195.238.21.204]>
In-Reply-To: <199910131513.IAA72452@cwsys.cwsent.com>
References:  <199910131513.IAA72452@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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At 8:12 AM -0700 1999/10/13, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:

> This reminds me of an AHC SCSI controller that froze during FreeBSD
> boot after a Y2K BIOS patch had been installed.  There could be some
> timings that some BIOS's use that we don't know about.

	I must admit, I've been sitting here silently reading and trying 
to understand everything on this thread.

	I haven't had any problems with SMP and fxp0, although I'd be 
very interested to know the exact situations in which others have, so 
that I can hopefully avoid those configurations myself.

-- 
   These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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