Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:36:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Gordanier <tim@cyclades.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "silo overflow" problems with Cyclades boards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222213327.7705I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3499E9F0.751C7C59@cyclades.com>
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On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Tim Gordanier wrote: > I work at Cyclades Corporation in the technical support department. > Cyclades manufactures multiport serial boards. The kind heart people at > FreeBSD have developed a driver for Cyclades Cyclom-Y family of > multiport for FreeBSD. Hello! > Here at Cyclades we have been getting customers having "SILO OVERFLOW" > and/or > "CY OVERFLOW" when using our brand boards for there dialup connections. > In the past we have been referring people to FreeBSD for help on this > problem sense we did not develop the driver and are not sure were to > find a solution. I would like to know if there is a solution for the > "SILO OVERFLOW" and/or "CY OVERFLOW" problem, this way we would not have > to sent customers to FreeBSD for help in this case. (Giving the great > people at FreeBSD more time to do other duties. :-) The `silo overflow' and `cy overflow' error messages means that the system was receiving information faster than the kernel could process it, so information was lost. Solution: reduce the port baud rate. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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