Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:22:14 -0500 From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vx0 stability? Message-ID: <199610311422.JAA23774@goffette.research.megasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610300324.WAA03374@spoon.beta.com> References: <199610300324.WAA03374@spoon.beta.com>
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian J McGovern <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> writes: Brian> I'm curious if anyone out there is currently using the 3Com Brian> 3C590 card reliably? I have one, and it works "ok" until I try Brian> to do large writes (ie - NFS writes of > 5K), at which time it Brian> freezes the machine up till I punch the reset button. Any Brian> ideas? I had the same problem. It seems that there are two versions of the card, the original 3c590, and the 3c590b, which is what everyone is selling these days. There was a change made in the board which seems to break the vx driver under FreeBSD. I didn't have any of the original 3c590 boards available, so I grabbed a 3c595, which I did have, and it works like a champ. (Actually, I have three 3c595s on the machine ... it's a triple (!) homed bastion host.) -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com Megasoft, Inc Chief Scientist http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself. Hacker Security Firewall Crypto PGP Privacy Unix Perl Java Internet Intranet
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