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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: slow telnet,rlogin....
Date: 31 May 1996 18:09:12 GMT
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Lei Guo <lxg8623@frontiernet.net> wrote:

> It only happens to the scsi box, which is NCR53C810 on irq9, 3COM509
> on irq10, 0h300, it even happens to the local machine.

Are your sure the IRQ is setup correctly?  The 3c509 driver is
somewhat forgiving, it unwedges the card once per second or so if
interrupts get lost.  This will result in a very slow operation but
not a total hang.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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