>From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
>
>On Tue 02 Dec 1997, maximum entropy wrote:
>> 
>> I had just started a ppp connection (to a NetBSD/i386 system, over
>> ser02 at 57600), and began ftp'ing a file to my TT.  About 5 seconds
>> into the transfer, I got some strange syslog messages.  The system
>> continued running (no crash or panic).  The transfer running at the
>> time the messages were generated completed OK.  I did some more
>> transfers, and the messages were not repeated.
>
>These are glitches in the SCSI-driver. Somehow the interrupt bit it set
>while the bus is clear. The messages are almost certainly caused by a
>bug (unsafe window?) in the driver. I never got them myself however. This
>makes them hard to find/fix.

I think that running the serial2 port at 57600 is related.  I had this
same problem twice again after posting the original message, and both
times the ppp link on serial2 was active (ftp'ing a lage file from a
remote system to the local disk on the atari).  The final time I got
the error, the machine wedged completely.

I lowered the speed to 38400 and the problem hasn't manifested again,
even with heavy ppp traffic.

Wild guess:  something in the SCSI driver is running at too low of an
ipl.

Cheers,
entropy

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