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From: ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-CURRENT sio silo overflow (was: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE sio silo overflows?)
Date: 16 Sep 1996 21:11:42 GMT
Organization: not this decade...
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References: <50i54c$mq7@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <51a8vo$nre@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <51f9m5$jo3@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <01bba343$7416acc0$df6d04c7@zellion.cyberwind.com>
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In article <01bba343$7416acc0$df6d04c7@zellion.cyberwind.com>,
Jeffery T. White <zellion@cyberwind.com> wrote:
>I may be out in left field here, if so then let the experts be merciful<g>,
>but perhaps since it appears you do not have anything at sio0 maybe you
>could configure your sio2 (the card right?)to sio0: at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on
>isa? I have never seen a system setup with no com1, but com2 and com3 work
>right, might be worth a shot?
Uh, maybe I'm being particularly dense here, but... why? The port addresses
don't really matter (as long as they're correct), the only reason why I can't
use all four ports is because of the stupid IRQ design.
>I can even play with the tape drive while my modem does routing
Yup -- I don't have any problems with my SCSI tape drives either, it's just
the disks causing the grief.
Once again, although the BSD daemon may frown at me, I must mention that
this particular machine has been running virtually identical software with
Linux underneath it, with no signs of serial port problems. This seems to
imply that there's nothing wrong with the hardware.
Ian.
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