Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 [NetBSD 1.2] keeps on booting.
To: None <newton@communica.com.au>
From: Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/14/1997 19:00:42
In "Re: Sun 3/60 [NetBSD 1.2] keeps on booting.", newton@communica.com.au
(Mark Newton) wrote: 
> Rick Kelly wrote:
> 
>  > Scott Ellis said:
>  > 
>  > >My 3/110 gets to the 'everything dumps core' stage after about 2 weeks,
>  > >but I've never as a spontaneous reboot.  Do you have the eeprom setup
>  > >to automatically boot a kernel, or is NetBSD actively rebooting itself
>  > >rather than crashing?
>  > 
>  > My 3/60 has been up for 15 days running NetBSD 1.2B from late November.
>  > It will probably be up until the next time I sup, build, and reboot,
>  > unless there is a poweroutage, which caused the last reboot.
> 
> Do you have si_options set to 5?  
> 
> "everything dumps core" seems to happen with depressing regularity when si_options == 7
> and not at all when si_options == 5.  DMA completion interrupt handler bug?
> 

I'm using options=7..and changing to options=3 seems to fix the problem.
I'll try 5, and see if that works as well.  I guess I set it to 7, and
forgot to change it back. ;-)  Oh well..thanks forjogging my brain.

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