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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NCR questions
Date: 4 Sep 1995 17:16:19 +0200
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Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>I've been getting sio1: X more interrupt level buffer overflows
>when using the NCR card with 2.0.5 -- what does this mean?

You've burnt your non-FIFO UART chip with too much speed.  Reduce the
tty speed, or get a FIFO (16550AFN) chip.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)