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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE sio silo overflows?
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 17:25:57 -0700
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To: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@mcc.ac.uk>

Ian Pallfreeman wrote:
>         Sep  3 21:29:55 clover /kernel: sio2: 4 more silo overflows (total 448)

Is this a motherboard which has ever run FreeBSD before?

> I'm missing a clue somewhere, I think. Can anybody help me out?

Could be you have one of those wonderfully dodgy on-board serial
controllers which *look* like 16550s but don't really perform like them
- it's a bad emulation.
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project