Re: qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...

[Paul Koning <paulkoning%comcast.net@localhost>]

> On Aug 19, 2020, at 2:23 AM, Anders Magnusson <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Den 2020-08-18 kl. 16:48, skrev Silas:
>> ...
>> That is what stopped me from playing with my beautiful VAXstation 4000/90 that is laying around since 7.0 days...
>> 
>> There are some old messages in port-vax about that, probably an unrelated bug?
> The DEQNA is likely to stop transmitting once in a while (at least the earlier firmwares), especially on busy shared networks IIRC.

I believe it can stop transmitting for all revs.  The reason VMS stopped supporting it and switched to the LQA is that even after 12 revs ("ECO L") it still was no good.

> But the SGEC in the /90 should be quite stable.  I have one myself and never gets any error, so I haven't reflected over it.

Yes, SGEC is an excellent bit of silicon.

	paul