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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: ed0 driver (was Re: NFS Crash)
Date: 26 Aug 1993 14:59:39 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support
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Alex R.N. Wetmore (aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.bugs: 25-Aug-93 Re: NFS crash
: (NetBSD 0.9) by David Greenman@agora.rai
: > The new driver does work with the 3c503, and the performance and
: > reliability with it exceed the 'ec' driver. As far as the over-run's that
: > you are seeing are concerned, the 'ec' driver experiances these as well -
: > it just doesn't do anything about it, which can lead to board lock-ups
: > and other not-so-nice behavior. And regarding the d0000 default for ed0,
: > nothing prevents you from setting this to anything you like. I use cc000
: > myself so that I can switch between SMC 8013 boards and 3c503 boards
: > without rebuilding a different kernel.
Hi. How do you propose to change the address? Do you mean by recompiling the
kernel? This is bad, because I have to ftp the binaries/sources.
:(
...alex...
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