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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!brasil.moneng.mei.com!not-for-mail From: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.0.2, WD8003/ed driver, NFS, problems? Date: 26 Mar 1994 17:59:35 -0600 Organization: Marquette Electronics, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2n2i97$11u@brasil.moneng.mei.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: brasil.moneng.mei.com I set up one of my famous "386 terminal servers" here yesterday. I use these at Solaria with great success to deal with incoming lines, and since we had a similar need at work, I figured "what the heck." However, I only had a 386sx and a WD8003 (I usually use a 386DX and WD8013). I loaded, configured my ts software, and all worked fine - but I wasn't able to NFS mount any directory on our Sun workstations correctly. The mount would succeed, I would cd to the dir., but when I try any (significant) access, it died with a kernel complaint that the server wasn't available. It seemed like a buffer problem of some sort, so I tried the obvious mount -t nfs -o soft,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 brasil:/files /mnt and all worked. If this is a known problem with the 8003, please disregard... I don't really care, it simply caught me by suprise. It is not important enough for me to go on a witch hunt. By the way, although I haven't had as much time as I would like to be following the *BSD's, I would like to thank everybody involved for an absolutely incredible job. Back in 1990, when I first heard of an effort to develop a 386 BSD port, I never thought I'd see the day when I would have several boxes running it... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - The Data Capture Fellow (and UNIX/Network Hacker) 414/362-3617 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com