Subject: Re: Hard drive problems - possibly tied to presence of PCI NIC?
To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/28/2004 14:59:09
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:42:57PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> > So my hard drive problems _appear_ to be fixed (knock on wood). The
> > NiC/HD problem that Brad is experiencing is still unknown, though we're
> > planning to dig into it more tonight.
> 
> Brad swapped NICs (to another 3c905b) and the problem went away.
> 
> Odd, but at least it's resolved :-)
> 

I've got lots of troubles with recent 3c905* adapters, like boards working
on a switch port but not another port of the same switch (where another
3c905 of the same brand will work on both), PXE not working with some
of them, etc ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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