On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > Huh? What made you think it was the DELQA? This is definitely a driver
> > problem.
> > 
> Not only. There are a bunch of firmware bugs that causes the xmit logic
> to stop sometimes. Depending on which revision of cards you have you may 
> never get it, the machines I have get it something like one per day.

Apart from some firmware bugs, which I am aware of (and which you saw
too)...
I get it irregularly, but at the worst times I get several per minute.
I can tell you that VMS don't stop, it's just when I run NetBSD...
(I haven't stressed VMS as much though. Maybe I should...)

Since my CMD SCSI controller don't work correctly with NetBSD either, I
have to run netbooted, which probably makes the problem worse...

> The cause of this is the same as the old driver "ring buffer overrun" error.

Very weird, but the ring buffer overrun didn't stop traffic for a few
seconds, like the current problem does.

> Running the "deqnad" program, posted on this list a couple of years ago,
> was DECs solution to the problem. Normally running this program fixes 
> the problem.

What did it do?

	Johnny

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