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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:17:54 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        sa-list@avantgo.com, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness 
Message-ID:  <199910120017.RAA15224@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:04:12 PDT." <199910120004.RAA02842@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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>> >> 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.
>
>We did this (you remember that we went through all this a while back, 
>right?), but we've also been seing reports from people that aren't 
>using NCR controllers.

   I haven't seen a report yet from someone not using an NCR/Symbios
controller.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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