I am currently testing a very expensive (comparitively) rack mount
PC from Texas Microsystems. It has a passive backplane, 6 PCI slots
and 11 (!) ISA slots. The CPU is on a seperate slotcard and has a
Pentium with 64Mb RAM 512k external cache, 7850-based SCSI, IDE
etc etc. Oh yeah, serial console too.

Problem is, with -current, I am getting various user-land randomness,
like core dumps, file not found etc etc. Occasionally I see:

	NMI port 61 a0, port 70 ff

go past, and occasionally (once a day say) the thing dies with a
panic.  Unfortunately, since the thing has so many devices in it
(3 x 4 port ethernet cards, 3 x 100Mb, DEFPA etc) that the kernel
log buffer (whatever the correct name is) is overflowed in just
one boot :( So no previous logs and the crash dump with gdb just
says "panic: trap" and then fails to give any other useful info.

I have not been near enough the console to turn the external cache
off yet, but anyone know what else it could be ? And what is that
NMI ?

Help. Ta.

Regards,
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