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- From: dpc@ic.ac.uk (David Carter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Linux 1.2.14pl4 bugs?
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 19:41:19 GMT
- Organization: Centre for Computing Services, Imperial College
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- : The first problem is mostly just annoying. Sometimes after booting
- : one of the virtual consoles will be in reverse video (while all the
- : rest are in normal video).
-
- I can certainly confirm this first problem exists. Suspect that the
- virtual console code is using uninitialised static variables for the
- attributes of each console, but I don't have my Amiga at hand to
- confirm this.
-
- A second rather more serious problem I have is that the A590/A2091 SCSI driver
- won't work when DMA is enabled. This is true of both 0.9.13 and 1.2.13pl4.
- The driver also refuses to negogiate sync, but this may be down to the drive,
- and I can always work around this with the wd33c93 option.
-
- Does anyone else have problems with the A2091? With DMA manually disabled,
- 1.2.14pl4 works fine.
-
- : The second problem is much more serious (for me anyway). The serial
- : driver seems to be losing characters somewhere. It is fairly
- : infrequent. I never notice it while just typing, but when downloading
- : files using kermit 190 about 5% of the packets cause errors. It is
- : almost impossible to download anything larger than about 256k as there
- : is invariably a serious enough problem that the two kermits get out of
- : sync and are unable to recover.
-
- I couldn't convince kermit to download files at all: packets kept timing
- out. Uploading wasn't a problem though. PPP worked like a dream, though
- some of the standard inet utilities (ifconfig, route) presume Intel
- endingness in their address printing code.
-
- An unrelated question: does anybody know what kind of SIMMs the CSA
- Derringer takes? The manual states "industry standard 72pin SIMMs",
- which isn't very helpful. I presume that it uses non-parity rather than
- parity SIMMs. Do they need to run at a certain speed?
-
- Dave
-