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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 2004 09:20:24 -0500
From:      Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu>
To:        "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: slow serial console 5.2.1
Message-ID:  <20040704142024.GA54204@quark.cs.earlham.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040704085709.00be5d58@absolut.wixb.com>
References:  <6.1.2.0.2.20040704085709.00be5d58@absolut.wixb.com>

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On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:59:57AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> This is really odd. I setup a 5.2.1 machine and used the serial port for=
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> console. I see it booting up just fine until it gets to the part where it=
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> checks the hard drive for fragmentation....then it SLOWS to a crawl....
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> it get's past the hard drive and then each part of the boot is word by wo=
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> as if someone is typing it....
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> Once the machine is up, the network side of it FLIES and all is well...bu=
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> the serial console cannot be used at all...nothing happens. Like it's=20
> jammed or stuck for example.
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> This is on a compaq deskpro EN SFF with dual COM ports and I built a kern=
el=20
> that detects as much as I can on this machine.
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> I have other FreeBSD machines that do not exhibit this and was wondering =
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> anyone else came across this before and what they did?

Do the serial settings change at all on the port?

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-- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/

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