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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet1!root From: root@buffnet.net (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FB 2.0.5 unstable Date: 15 Oct 1995 00:48:14 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 33 Message-ID: <45ploe$4m7@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <45ikpn$i50@snert.pilhuhn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet1.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Heiko W.Rupp (hwr@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de) wrote: : Hello, : we here have a ASUS P55TP4XE board with 32Mb, P90, Bt946c,3* DPES 31080 disks : and a 3c509b card. : The maschine acts as a newsserver. : It hung two times in the last week with no messages no nothing. Didn't answer : to pings etc. After rebooting (pressing reset) the bt didn't scan for disks : only power cycling helped. : The bt has firmware Version 4.25J and dmesg says: : > bt0: Bt946C/ 0-PCI/EISA/VLB(32bit) bus : > bt0: reading board settings, dma=5, int=11 : > bt0: version 4.25J, async only, parity, 32 mbxs, 32 ccbs : > bt0: targ 0 async : > bt0: targ 1 async : > bt0: targ 2 async : The disks support synchronous transfers ... : Any hints? I thought I read that the 3c509 card wdriver was known to have problems. I had the hang on a news server under linux with an ne2000 and found it was a known driver bug in that environ with that card. However, under freebsd, the ne2000 clone works like a charm - and I replaced a 509 with an ne2000 just because of that hint wherever I read it about 509's and freebsd. Just an idea of a possible reason.