Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.5.2 crashes sporadically
To: Andreas Voegele <voegelas@users.sourceforge.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/01/2002 14:51:20
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:10:12PM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote:
> I've installed NetBSD 1.5.2 on my laptop and on my normal PC.  On the
> laptop, NetBSD runs very well but the other computer crashes
> sporadically.  No error message is output; the computer just hangs.  I
> have to press the reset button to reboot the computer.  I'm sure that
> there are no hardware problems; the computer works fine under
> GNU/Linux.
> 
> In contrast to the laptop, my PC is a SCSI-only system.  There are
> four PCI cards: a Tekram 390U SCSI controller (Symbios Logic 53c875),
> two RealTek RTL8129 network cards and an ELSA Victory Erazor graphics
> card (RIVA 128).  And there's a Creative Soundblaster ViBRA 16 ISA
> sound card.  The motherboard is a DFI K6BV3+ with a VIA MVP3
> chip set.  The IDE controllers are disabled.
> 
> Are there known problems with this hardware and the kernel that comes
> with NetBSD 1.5.2?  Which version of the kernel should I use?

There may be problems with the 53c875. Update siop.c to 1.21.2.8 (you may
get it from anoncvs, or from ftp:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-5/src/sys/dev/ic/siop.c

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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