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- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: Still having missing character problems
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:51:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <By15u8.IJ@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <1992Nov12.144923.725@zooid.guild.org> <Bxo9vo.Kqq@world.std.com>
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- In <Bxo9vo.Kqq@world.std.com> ahmcs@world.std.com (Alan H Mintz) writes:
-
- >I don't know if I responded previously or not, but I don't think your
- >problem is CLISTs. When we went from a 386/25+Adaptec 1542 to a 486/50+
- >Dell DDA (EISA SCSI-looking thing), we started seeing the same problem under
- >2.3.4.
- >It seems to coincide with heavy disk load, leading me to believe that
- >the SCSI controller and/or driver is "traffic-jamming" the bus and/or kernel
- >to where serial interrupts are being lost. Does this seem reasonable?
-
- Do you really see the same symptoms? He was losing characters on
- *output* too.
-
- Apparantly the Adaptec driver blocks the interrupts for quite some
- time, causing the console to freeze. However, I don't lose characters
- on output.
-
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- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
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