Subject: Re: DEFTA on 5000/260
To: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/04/2003 10:35:31
At 01:53 PM 5/3/2003, Lord Isildur wrote:

>hmm.. ive just spent much of the day installing different versions (did not
>get to 1.6 yet, admittedly, but i have a lot of disagreement with many of
>the changes in 1.6 and dont want to run it unless i really have to.. :),
>from 1.4 up to 1.5.3, and can not get reliable operation of a DEFTA on a
>5000/260. in 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, with modified pdq.c as suggested quite a
>while ago here, i can move traffic through the cards, but as soon as i
>start e.g. an outgoing ftp of a big file, it panics with 'out of the TLB
>universe' or something like that.. in 1.5.2 and 1.5.3, it wont even do
>that, it just prints out a few lines about a DMA error, link unavailable,
>then link available.. no traffic moves... Is it a lost cause to use a
>DEFTA on a '260 in netbsd? has anyone ever known that combination
>to work?

It works fine in my 260.


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