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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
To: Martin Heller <mheller@student.uni-kl.de>
Cc: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>; port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG
<port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
Date: Friday, March 06, 1998 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: unexpected halt of system while trying to print


>> EXAMINE on SRM after halt gave:
>>  PMEM: 0 000000000
>> don't know if there were more or less zeros, but there was nothing
>> else.
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>Right.
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>Unfortunately, 'examine' without any arguments doesn't do much.  You
>need to give it the right args, and i forget what they are at the
>moment.  "help examine" should help.  I seem to recall that it's like
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> examine -gpr r0
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>to get the contents of r0, etc.  repeat for r0 -> r30.  8-)
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>
>> Another interesting thing:
>> if I do a 'ktrace -t iencs cat anytext > /dev/lpt0' the system won't
>> halt! But it won't print anything either ... a ctrl-C terminates it
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>That's not surprising; it's quite likely a subtle (in the code, not in
>the effect 8-) timing problem, and ktracing will change the timing.
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>cgd
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