Subject: Re: fxp0: Device timeouts on AlphaServers
To: Stephen M. Jones <smj@cirr.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/16/2003 23:55:04
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:46:58PM -0600, Stephen M. Jones wrote:
> I'm also seeing this with CS20s (1.6.1rc1).  Two CS20s here have the same
> hardware configuration, but different loads/usage .. the funny thing is the
> one that has more I/O usage is not the one that is complaining so often. 
> They're both NFS mounting the same disks, one runs a a webmail http server
> the other runs a mud .. both handle anywhere from 30-100 users at anytime.

...

> I think the DS10Ls and similar would be a victim of this race condition.
> If there is a patch or work around, I would be interested as well.
> 
> The unfortunate part of this story is that I'm planning on replacing our
> AS1200 (four) with DS10L which have built in fxp devices.  But hopefully we'll
> get a work around together before to long.

DS10[L] does not have Intel/fxp devices, it uses the 21143s. As in
(dmesg from FreeBSD, sorry..) 

dc0: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1100-0x117f mem 0x18a5000-0x18a53ff irq 29 at device 9.0 on pci0
dc0: interrupting at TSUNAMI irq 29
dc0: Ethernet address: 08:00:2b:86:43:21
miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
dcphy0: <Intel 21143 NWAY media interface> on miibus0
dcphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
dc1: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1180-0x11ff mem 0x18a5400-0x18a57ff irq
30 at device 11.0 on pci0
dc1: interrupting at TSUNAMI irq 30
dc1: Ethernet address: 08:00:2b:86:43:20
miibus1: <MII bus> on dc1
dcphy1: <Intel 21143 NWAY media interface> on miibus1
dcphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

taken from my DS10

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