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From: "Christos S. Varitimos" <stud@yomamashouse.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: SMC Elite/Buslogic Problem? Help!!
Date: 12 Sep 1996 15:44:19 GMT
Organization: NetWay By MDC, Inc.
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Hello All,
I seem to have a problem and hopefully someone on this list will be able
to help me. The problem started about 2 weeks ago. With some
investigative work we tracked the problem down to network spikes which was
causing our NE2000 compatible Ethernet card to hang. In looking around
some old BSDI postings I found that this was a known problem and BSDI
recommended not using NE2000 compatible cards. So we went out and
purchased an SMC Elite16C Ultra. Well the install went great. We shut the
system down pulled the old card out and put the new one in. Booted the
system up in single user mode changed over the /etc/netstart iface=ne0
line to read iface=we0 and hit control-D and the system was running like a
charm! Well about an 90 minutes latter the console screen was full of
lines reading:
bha0 - Operation time exceeds 10 seconds
bha0 - Operation time exceeds 20 seconds
bha0 - Operation time exceeds 30 seconds
bha0 - Operation time exceeds 40 seconds
These where those nice blue lines that really scare you! Basically from
this point on you could not access any of the scsi devices thus the system
was useless. We rebooted and everything seemed fine. Approx. 90 minutes
latter BOOM the same thing happens. We pulled the SMC card out and put the
old NE2000 card back in and all has been fine. However we know that at any
minute the NE2000 card could hang. So if anyone has any help here please
email me. The following log may or may not help.
Thanks,
Douglas L. Smith
systemdls@mdc.net
Sep 12 02:51:01 netway1 kernel: BSDI BSD/OS 2.0.1 Kernel #9: Tue Sep 10
06:56:28 EDT 199
Sep 12 02:51:01 netway1 kernel: root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL
Sep 12 02:51:01 netway1 kernel: cpu = Pentium model 2, stepping 5
Sep 12 02:51:01 netway1 kernel: delay multiplier 2560
Sep 12 02:51:01 netway1 kernel: real mem = 67108864
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: avail mem = 64176128
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: buffer cache = 6668288
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: isa0 (root)
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: pccons0 at isa0 iobase 0x60 irq 1: color, 8
screens
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: pcaux0 at isa0 iobase 0x60 irq 12
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: com0 at isa0 iobase 0x3f8 irq 4: buffered
(16550AF)
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: digi0 at isa0 iobase 0x224 irq 15 maddr
0xb0000-0xb7fff PC/Xem
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: digi1 at isa0 iobase 0x324 irq 11 maddr
0xb0000-0xb7fff PC/Xem
Sep 12 02:51:02 netway1 kernel: lp0 at isa0 iobase 0x378 irq 7
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: fdc0 at isa0 iobase 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: fd0 at fdc0 slave 0: 1.44M HD 3.5
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: npx0 at isa0 iobase 0xf0
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: vga0 at isa0 iobase 0x3c0 maddr
0xa0000-0xaffff
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: bha0 at isa0 iobase 0x330 irq 10: Buslogic
BT-{445S,747,742,946C} rev 42 (32-bit)
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: bha0: delaying to permit certain devices to
finish self-test
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: bha0: synch negotiation, parity, bus
transfer 5 Mb/s, bus on/off 7/4 us
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: tg0 at bha0 target 0
Sep 12 02:51:03 netway1 kernel: sd0 at tg0 unit 0: SEAGATE ST31230N rev
0290 (SCSI-2) 2069860*512
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: tg0: synch transfer period 200 ns, offset
15 (5 MB/s), disconnect off
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: tg1 at bha0 target 1
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: sd1 at tg1 unit 0: SEAGATE ST32430N rev
0300 (SCSI-2) 4197405*512
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: tg1: synch transfer period 200 ns, offset
15 (5 MB/s), disconnect off
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: tg2 at bha0 target 2
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: st0 at tg2 unit 0: CONNER CTMS 3200 rev
7.00 (SCSI-2) streaming (512) tape
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: tg2: synch transfer period 200 ns, offset
15 (5 MB/s), disconnect off
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: tg3 at bha0 target 3
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: sd2 at tg3 unit 0: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3601TA
rev 0725 (SCSI-2) removable
Sep 12 02:51:04 netway1 kernel: tg3: synch transfer period 200 ns, offset
15 (5 MB/s), disconnect off
Sep 12 02:51:05 netway1 kernel: pci configuration mechanism 1
Sep 12 02:51:05 netway1 kernel: we0 at isa0 iobase 0x280 irq 3 maddr
0xd0000-0xd3fff
Sep 12 02:51:05 netway1 kernel: we0: WD8013EPC 16bit address
00:00:c0:be:44:4c
Sep 12 02:51:05 netway1 kernel: pe0 at isa0/lp0
Sep 12 02:51:05 netway1 kernel: xir0 at isa0/lp0
Sep 12 02:51:05 netway1 kernel: changing root device to sd0a
Sep 12 02:51:05 netway1 kernel: bha0: warning, interrupts not working,
using polling
Sep 12 02:52:32 netway1 init: kernel security level changed from 0 to 1