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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Strange error scsi msg. on console
Date: 23 Jun 1996 20:08:04 GMT
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dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) wrote:

> >init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv3
> >sleeping 30 seconds

> Check to see that all inputs on your COM ports are terminated
> (i.e. not floating).

Do also check the boot messages for a message like:

sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 on isa
sio2: type 16450

If you see a ``not found'' there, you've misconfigured something (most
likely the IRQ).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)