Re: sunhme ethernet (receiver?) locking up w/ ultra1 and 2.4.18-.20
On 3 Feb 2003, Irvin Probst wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:31, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> >
> > It's not just Linux - Solaris sufferes from this hardware bug too.
> > Anyone with a busy server on an Ultra 1 platform is asking for trouble.
> > One of my clients has been plagued by it for many years until we recently
> > upgraded the hardware to an Ultra 80. Waste of an Ultra 80, but it keeps
> > them happy and stop the 30-second timeout you get with Solaris.
>
> I have two Ultra 1, one running OpenBSD, the other one Solaris 9. They
> do not have to deal with a lot of bandwitdh (10BT on the local network,
> 512k DSL with the outside world) but sometimes I use them for big file
> transfers. They both have have one HME card, the gateway has a lance
> ethernet card too.
I was using solaris 7 on this particular box - what triggered it was doing
lots of local disk activity.
Gordon
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