Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 [NetBSD 1.2] keeps on booting.
To: None <newton@communica.com.au>
From: Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/14/1997 19:00:42
In "Re: Sun 3/60 [NetBSD 1.2] keeps on booting.", newton@communica.com.au
(Mark Newton) wrote:
> Rick Kelly wrote:
>
> > Scott Ellis said:
> >
> > >My 3/110 gets to the 'everything dumps core' stage after about 2 weeks,
> > >but I've never as a spontaneous reboot. Do you have the eeprom setup
> > >to automatically boot a kernel, or is NetBSD actively rebooting itself
> > >rather than crashing?
> >
> > My 3/60 has been up for 15 days running NetBSD 1.2B from late November.
> > It will probably be up until the next time I sup, build, and reboot,
> > unless there is a poweroutage, which caused the last reboot.
>
> Do you have si_options set to 5?
>
> "everything dumps core" seems to happen with depressing regularity when si_options == 7
> and not at all when si_options == 5. DMA completion interrupt handler bug?
>
I'm using options=7..and changing to options=3 seems to fix the problem.
I'll try 5, and see if that works as well. I guess I set it to 7, and
forgot to change it back. ;-) Oh well..thanks forjogging my brain.
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