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From: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD 1.0.2, WD8003/ed driver, NFS, problems?
Date: 26 Mar 1994 17:59:35 -0600
Organization: Marquette Electronics, Inc.
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I set up one of my famous "386 terminal servers" here yesterday.  I use
these at Solaria with great success to deal with incoming lines, and since
we had a similar need at work, I figured "what the heck."  However, I only
had a 386sx and a WD8003 (I usually use a 386DX and WD8013).  I loaded,
configured my ts software, and all worked fine - but I wasn't able to NFS 
mount any directory on our Sun workstations correctly.  The mount would
succeed, I would cd to the dir., but when I try any (significant) access, 
it died with a kernel complaint that the server wasn't available.

It seemed like a buffer problem of some sort, so I tried the obvious

mount -t nfs -o soft,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 brasil:/files /mnt

and all worked.

If this is a known problem with the 8003, please disregard...  I don't
really care, it simply caught me by suprise.  It is not important enough
for me to go on a witch hunt.

By the way, although I haven't had as much time as I would like to be
following the *BSD's, I would like to thank everybody involved for an
absolutely incredible job.  Back in 1990, when I first heard of an effort to
develop a 386 BSD port, I never thought I'd see the day when I would have
several boxes running it...

... Joe

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Joe Greco - The Data Capture Fellow (and UNIX/Network Hacker)      414/362-3617
Marquette Electronics, Inc. - Milwaukee, WI        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com