Linux or hardware?

[Norman Walsh <norm@ora.com>]

I'm forwarding this for our sysadmin.  Topaz is a PC running debian 0.93R5...
it's supposed to be our news server ;-)

Any suggestions most appreciated...

> From: "Tanya Herlick" <tanya@ora.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:08:18 -0400
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if the problems I'm getting on topaz
> are linux or hardware.  Unfortunately, I have no access to any
> news groups where I can ask.  Can you help?  Or help me get help?
> The error looks like this (I can't reproduce all of it):
> 
> out-of-sync dirty pointer, 18 vs. 34, full=1
> eth0: transmit timed out, status 0072, resetting,
>  Ring data dump: dirty_tx 34 cur_tx 35 (full) cur_rx 76.
>   032212f4 0608 032218fc 0608 0040 83221f04 0000 0040 8322250c   
>   032212f4 0608 032218fc 0608 0040 83221f04 0000 0040 8322250c 
>   032212f4 0608 032218fc 0608 0040 83221f04 0000 0040 8322250c 
>   032212f4 0608 032218fc 0608 0040 83221f04 0000 0040 8322250c 
>   032212f4 0608 032218fc 0608 0040 83221f04 0000 0040 8322250c 
>   032212f4 0608 032218fc 0608 0040 83221f04 0000 0040 8322250c 
>   ...
> 
> Those last few lines are just copies of the first one (I wasn't about
> to copy out every last digit).  But you get the picture.
> Incidentally, the machine is still up (this is not a crash).

                                                  Cheers,
                                                    norm
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