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From: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SIO Overflows
Date: 6 Aug 1995 04:44:11 GMT
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FICNAR FRANK G (ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:
: Greetings,
: I am having a slight problem with my current installation of 2.0.5.
: Messages keep appearing on the console claiming "sio1: x more silo overflows"
: and this just keeps mounting for as long as the system is running. They appear
: more frequently when I am using my modem, which is understandable. When my
: modem is not active I have HylaFax running on the port so I assume it would
: cause messages to appear then. Why are these overflows occuring? Does
: anybody know how to fix this? sio1 is my COM2 which has a 16550 UART
: installed and it worked flawlessly in 2.0. Thanks for your help.
I am having the same problem with 2.0.5R. I upgraded from 1.1.5.1 .
In my case, the program using the serial port gets into a state where
I have to "kill -9" it to get out of it.
--
-Jim Durham